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2 When this was done, the anger of king Xerxes calmed down. Then, as he recalled what Vashti had done and the edict against her, 2 his pages said, “Let beautiful girls be sought out for the king; 3 let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all the beautiful girls to the citadel of Susa, placing them in the hareem under the keeping of Hege, the king’s eunuch, who has charge of the women; 4 let the girls be provided with all the perfumes they require, and the girl who pleases the king, let her be queen instead of Vashti.” This proposal pleased the king, and so he did.
5 Now in the citadel of Susa there was a Jew called Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; 6 he had been carried off from Jerusalem along with the exiles who were deported with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had deported. 7 He had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother; the girl was handsome and lovely, and, as her father and mother were dead, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter. 8 Later on, when the king’s word and command were proclaimed, and when a number of girls were being brought to the citadel of Susa and placed in charge of Hege, Esther was taken into the royal house in charge of Hege, who had charge of the women. 9 The girl pleased Mm; she became a favourite, and he lost no time in giving her the perfumes and the dainties and the seven maids which were her due, picked from the royal house; he also promoted her to the best apartments in the hareem. 10 Esther had not said anything about her people or her descent, for Mordecai had told her to say nothing about it. 11 Every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the hareem, to ask how Esther was and how she fared.
12 Now, when the turn came for every girl to go to king Xerxes, after she had spent twelve months undergoing the treatment prescribed for the women (this was how they were spent: six months’ treatment with oil of myrrh and six months with preparations of perfume and scent), 13 this was the rule for the girl who went to the king: she was allowed to take whatever she chose from the hareem, when she entered the king’s house. 14 She went in the evening, and next morning she came back to the second hareem, in charge of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the concubines. She never went to the king again, unless the king desired her and summoned her by name.
15 When the turn came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai (who had adopted her as his daughter), to go to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hege the king’s eunuch advised. Esther won the admiration of all who saw her. 16 And when she was taken to king Xerxes, into his royal house, in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, 17 the king loved Esther more than all his wives, and she won his grace and favour more than all the girls; he placed the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. 18 The king then gave a great banquet to all his officials and his courtiers; it was a banquet held in honour of Esther. He granted a holiday to the provinces and made presents right royally. 19 It was during a second levy of girls, as Mordecai still sat in the king’s Gate 20 (for Esther had not yet said anything about her descent or her people, by Mordecai’s orders; she still did what Mordecai told her, just as when she had been brought up by him), 21 it was then, as Mordecai was sitting in the king’s Gate, that Bigthan and Teresh, two of the royal eunuchs who guarded the king’s apartments, in a fit of anger tried to murder king Xerxes; 22 but the plot became known to Mordecai, who disclosed it to queen Esther. Esther told the king, in Mordecai’s name, 23 and when the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hung on the gallows. The story was recorded in the annals kept within the king’s apartments.