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Esther 2 · The search for a new queen

Esther 2:13

Cover of Esther — ZARZA Bible

This is how the young woman would go to the king: whatever she asked for was given her to take with her from the women’s quarters to the king’s house.

Esther 2:13 · ZARZA Bible

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11Day after day Mordecai walked in front of the courtyard of the women’s quarters, to learn how Esther was and what was being done with her. 12Each young woman’s turn came to go to King Ahasuerus at the end of twelve months under the law governing the women; for that was how the days of their beautifying were completed — six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and the cosmetics of women. 13This is how the young woman would go to the king: whatever she asked for was given her to take with her from the women’s quarters to the king’s house. 14In the evening she went in, and in the morning she returned to a second women’s quarters, under the charge of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the concubines. She did not go to the king again unless the king desired her and she was summoned by name. 15When the turn came for Esther — daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter — to go to the king, she asked for nothing beyond what Hegai, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women, advised. And Esther won favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

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