Esther 2:3-5

Jubilee Bible 2000

³ and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan, the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women; and let them be given that which is necessary for their purification;

⁴ and let the maiden which pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king, and he did so.

⁵ Now in Shushan, the palace, there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;