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14 In the evening she would go in, and the next morning she would return to the second women’s house under the care of Shaashgaz.[a] He was the king’s eunuch in charge of the secondary wives. She would never go to the king again unless she was called by name. 15 The time came for Esther daughter of Aminadab, Mordecai’s uncle, to go to the king. She didn’t refuse anything that Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, told her to take along. Esther kept winning the favor of everyone who saw her.

16 Esther went in to see King Artaxerxes in the twelfth month, the month of Adar,[b] in the seventh year of his rule.

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Footnotes

  1. Greek Esther 2:14 Gk Gai
  2. Greek Esther 2:16 February–March

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