Esther 2:5-7

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁵ In the fortress of Susa there was a Jew from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai. He was the son of Jair, the grandson of Shimei, and the great-grandson of Kish. ⁶ (Kish had been taken captive from Jerusalem together with the others who had gone into exile along with Judah’s King Jehoiakin,^[a] whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had carried away.) ⁷ Mordecai had raised Hadassah, also known as Esther, his uncle’s daughter, because she was an orphan. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was very attractive. When her father and mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter.