⁷ He was the guardian to Hadassah, that is ^(A)Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young woman was beautiful of form and ^[a]face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

²⁹ Then Queen Esther, ^(A)daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm ^(B)this second letter about Purim.