¹¹ Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.

¹⁸ Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers^(A) are and bring back some assurance^[a] from them.

¹⁴ So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers^(A) and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.^(B)

When Joseph arrived at Shechem,

Disagreement Between Paul and Barnabas

³⁶ Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns^(A) where we preached the word of the Lord^(B) and see how they are doing.”

¹³ And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace. ¹⁴ In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines.^(A) She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.^(B)