⁹ And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her ^(A)with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with seven chosen young women from the king's palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem.

²¹ But ^(A)the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love ^(B)and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

¹² Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—

³ And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the citadel, under custody of ^(A)Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women. ^(B)Let their cosmetics be given them.

^9 (A)And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs,

⁶ this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe ^(A)skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, ^(B)for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

¹⁰ and rescued him out of all his afflictions and ^(A)gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ^(B)who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

⁵⁰ and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and ^(A)grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them