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|Ester 2:11|
And every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her.
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12
|Ester 2:12|
Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean):
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13
|Ester 2:13|
And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.
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14
|Ester 2:14|
In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again.
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15
|Ester 2:15|
Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.
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16
|Ester 2:16|
So Esther was taken in to King Ahasuerus in his house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his rule.
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17
|Ester 2:17|
And Esther was more pleasing to the king than all the women, and to his eyes she was fairer and more full of grace than all the other virgins: so he put his crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
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18
|Ester 2:18|
Then the king gave a great feast for all his captains and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he gave orders through all the divisions of his kingdom for a day of rest from work, and gave wealth from his store.
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19
|Ester 2:19|
And when the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the doorway of the king's house.
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20
|Ester 2:20|
Esther had still said nothing of her family or her people, as Mordecai had given her orders; for Esther did what Mordecai said, as when she was living with him.
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