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 [a]Hege the king’s eunuch the keeper of the women [b]said: and Esther found favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

16 ¶ So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the [c]month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 2:15 Or, Hegai.
  2. Esther 2:15 Wherein her modesty appeared, because she sought not apparel to commend her beauty, but stood to the Eunuch’s appointment.
  3. Esther 2:16 Which contained part of December and part of January.

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