⁷ And he was bringing up Hadassah, that is ^(A)Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance, 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 establish ^(B)this second letter about Purim.