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13 Then she goes in to the king; she is handed to the person appointed and goes with him from the harem to the king’s palace.[a] 14 In the evening she enters, and in the morning she departs to the second harem, where Gai the king’s eunuch is in charge of the women, and she does not go in to the king again unless she is summoned by name.

15 When the time was fulfilled for Esther daughter of Aminadab, the brother of Mordecai’s father, to go in to the king, she neglected none of the things that the eunuch in charge of the women had commanded. For Esther found favor in the eyes of all who saw her.(A)

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  1. 2.13 Meaning of Gk uncertain