Esther 2:16

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¹⁶Esther was taken to King Xerxes at the royal palace in early winter^[a] of the seventh year of his reign.

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Footnotes

2:16 Hebrew in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth. A number of dates in the book of Esther can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Persian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred within the months of December 479 B.c. and January 478 B.c.

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