Esther 2:12-14
Lexham English Bible
12 When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women—for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women’s cosmetics— 13 in this way, the girl goes to the king and all that she asks is given to her to take[a] with her from the harem[b] to the king’s palace.[c] 14 In the evening she would go and in the morning she would return to the second harem[d] under the care of[e] Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name.
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- Esther 2:13 Literally “to go”
- Esther 2:13 Literally “house of the women”
- Esther 2:13 Literally “house of the king”
- Esther 2:14 Literally “second house of the women”
- Esther 2:14 Literally “to the hand of”
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