³ And let the king appoint overseers in ^(A)all the provinces of his kingdom that they may gather every young virgin, beautiful in appearance, to the citadel of Susa, to the harem, into the hand of ^(B)Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who keeps charge of the women; and ^(C)let their cosmetics be given to them.

¹² Now when it reached the turn of each young lady to go in to King Ahasuerus, after the end of her twelve months under the regulations for the women—for the days of their cosmetic treatment were fulfilled as follows: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and the cosmetics for women—