Greek Esther 2:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ The king shall appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and they shall select beautiful young virgins to be brought to the harem in Susa, the capital. Let them be entrusted to the king’s eunuch who is in charge of the women, and let ointments and whatever else they need be given them. ⁴ And the woman who pleases the king shall be queen instead of Vashti.’^[a] This pleased the king, and he did so.

⁵ Now there was a Jew in Susa the capital whose name was Mordecai son of Jair son of Shimei^[b] son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin;