Esther 2:13

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

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KJV

King James Version

Then thus came [every] maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.

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WEB

World English Bible

The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.

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ASV

American Standard Version

then in this wise came the maiden unto the king: Whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Esther 2

¹¹ And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.

¹² In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

¹³ When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

¹⁴ She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.

¹⁵ Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

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