Esther 2:13-15
1599 Geneva Bible
13 And thus went the maids unto the King) whatsoever she required, was [a]given her to go with her out of the women’s house unto the king’s house.
14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women under the hand of Shaashgaz the King’s eunuch, which kept the concubines: she came in to the King no more, except she pleased the King, and that she were called by name.
15 Now when the course of Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai (which had taken her as his own daughter) came, that she should go in to the king, she desired nothing, but what [b]Hege the king’s eunuch the keeper of the women [c]said: and Esther found favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
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- Esther 2:13 What apparel she asked of the eunuch, that was he bound to give her.
- Esther 2:15 Or, Hegai.
- Esther 2:15 Wherein her modesty appeared, because she sought not apparel to commend her beauty, but stood to the Eunuch’s appointment.
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