¹¹ Every day Mordecai walked in front of the women’s courtyard to find out how Esther was, and what might happen to her.

¹² When each young woman’s turn came to go to King Ahasuerus at the end of 12 months as prescribed for the women—for in this way they fulfilled their beautification: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women’s cosmetics— ¹³ the young woman would go to the king in this way: whatever she asked for was given to her to take with her from the women’s house to the king’s palace.