Esther 2:13-15

International Standard Version

¹³ After that the young woman would go in to the king, and whatever she asked for would be given to her to take with her from the harem to the palace. ¹⁴ In the evening she would go into the palace^[a] and in the morning she would return to the second harem, into the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the mistresses.^[b] She would not go again to the king unless the king wanted her and she was called for by name. ¹⁵ Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, who had been Mordecai’s uncle. Mordecai had taken Esther in as his own^[c] daughter. When her turn came to go in to the king, she did not want anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the harem, advised. Esther found favor with everyone who saw her.