³ Wash,^(A) put on perfume,^(B) and get dressed in your best clothes.^(C) Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.^(D)

² So Joab sent someone to Tekoa^(A) and had a wise woman^(B) brought from there. He said to her, “Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don’t use any cosmetic lotions.^(C) Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead.

⁹ I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,^{(A) 10} but with good deeds,^(B) appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

¹⁷ But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,

⁸ Always be clothed in white,^(A) and always anoint your head with oil.

Esther’s Request to the King

5 On the third day Esther put on her royal robes^(A) and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king’s^(B) hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.