Esther 2:12-14

Contemporary English Version

¹² The young women were given beauty treatments for one whole year. The first six months their skin was rubbed with olive oil and myrrh, and the last six months it was treated with perfumes and cosmetics. Then each of them spent the night alone with King Xerxes. ¹³ When a young woman went to the king, she could wear whatever clothes or jewelry she chose from the women's living quarters. ¹⁴ In the evening she would go to the king, and the following morning she would go to the place where his wives stayed after being with him. There a man named Shaashgaz was in charge of the king's wives.^[a] Only the ones the king wanted and asked for by name could go back to the king.