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This young woman pleased him,[a] and she found favor with him. He quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her rations; he also provided her with the seven specially chosen[b] young women who were from the palace. He then transferred her and her young women to the best quarters in the harem.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 2:9 tn Heb “was good in his eyes”; NLT “Hegai was very impressed with Esther.”
  2. Esther 2:9 tn Heb “being looked at (with favor).”
  3. Esther 2:9 tn Heb “of the house of the women” (so KJV, ASV). So also in vv. 11, 13, 14.