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Let the king appoint officials in all the provinces of his kingdom so that they can gather all the young, good-looking virgins to the palace at Susa, to the women’s house under the supervision of Hege, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women and give them beauty treatments.
And it came to pass, when the king’s commandment and decree (edict, decree, law) was published, and when many young women (virgins) were gathered together to the palace of Susa, under the care of Hege, that Esther also was taken to the king’s palace, and delivered to Hege, the keeper of the women. (According to the Jewish historian Josephus, there were 400 virgins.)
Now when it was the turn of Esther, the daughter of Avichajil, the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter, when her turn came to go in to the king, she desired nothing except what Hege, the king’s chamberlain and guardian of the women, recommended. And Esther had favor with all who looked upon her.
