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2:7 [ Full Context ] And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter. |
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2:8 [ Full Context ] So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. |
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2:10 [ Full Context ] Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it. |
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2:11 [ Full Context ] And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her. |
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2:15 [ Full Context ] Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her. |