Esther 2

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1 After this, when the wrath of King Artaxerxes died down, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been determined about her.
2 And the king's servants who ministered to him said: Let them seek out to the king young beautiful girls,
3 And let the king appoint observers to all the regions of his kingdom that would assemble all the young girls, beautiful in appearance, to the throne city of Susa, to the house of the wives under the supervision of Hegai, the royal eunuch, the guardian of wives, and let them give them a mop,
4 And a virgin who will enjoy the eyes of the king, let there be a queen instead of Vashti. And it pleased this word in the eyes of the king, and he did so.
5 There was a certain Jew in Susa, the city of the throne, his name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin.
6th He was removed from Jerusalem, along with the captives removed from Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon moved.
7th And he was the tutor of Hadassah, - but Esther, - the daughter of his uncle, since she had neither father nor mother. This damsel was beautiful and pitched with her face. And after the death of her father and her mother, Mordecai took her to his place instead of his daughter.
8 When the king's decree and his decree were announced, and when many of the girls were gathered to the throne city of Susa under Geghai's supervision, Esther was also taken to the royal house under the supervision of Hegai, the guardian of wives.
9 And the girl liked the eyes of him and took good pleasure in him, and he hastened to give her the cups and all that was assigned to her, and to put to her seven maidens worthy of being with her, from the royal house, and moved her and her maidens In the best department of the women's home.
10 Esther did not speak of her people or of her kinship, because Mordecai gave her orders not to tell her.
eleven And every day Mordecai came to the court of the women's home to visit Esther's health and what was being done to her.
12 When it was time for every maiden to enter the king Artaxerxes, after all the women had been done over her for twelve months - for so long the days of their rubbing had lasted: six months with myrrh oil and six months with fragrances and other women's masks, -
13 Then the virgin came in to the king. Whatever she demanded, she was given everything to go from the women's home to the king's house.
14 In the evening she entered and in the morning returned to another house of the woman under the supervision of Shaazgaz, the royal eunuch, guardian of concubines; And no longer entered the king, unless the king would have wished her, and she would have been called by her name.
15 When the time came for Esther, the daughter of Aminadab, the uncle of Mordecai, who took her to him instead of his daughter, - to go to the king, then she asked nothing but what Geghai, the king's eunuch, the guard of wives, had told her. And Esther acquired the favor in the sight of all who saw her.
16 And Esther was taken to king Ahasuerus, to his king's house, in the tenth month, that is, in the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
17th And king Esther loved more than all wives, and she acquired his favor and favor among all the virgins; And he put a royal crown on her head and made her queen in the place of Vashti.
18 And the king made a great feast for all his princes and for his servants, a feast for Esther, and made a privilege to the provinces and distributed gifts with royal generosity.
19 And when the maidens were gathered for the second time, and Mordecai sat at the king's gate,
20 Esther still did not speak of her kinship and her people, as Mordecai commanded her; And the word of Mordecai Esther fulfilled [and now] the same as when he was in his upbringing.

21 At this time, as Mordecai sat at the king's gate, two royal eunuchs, Gawaf and Farr, who guarded the threshold, were embittered, and plotted to lay hands on the king Artaxerxes.
22 Upon learning of this, Mordecai told the queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai.
23 The case was investigated and found [true], and they were both hanged on a tree. And it was written about the good deeds of Mordecai in the book of the day's records of the king.

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