Esther 2:10-12

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹⁰ Esther had not declared her people nor her birth, for Mordecai had charged her that she should not declare it.

¹¹ And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house to know the peace of Esther and what was done with her.

¹² Now when each maid’s turn was come to go in to King Ahasuerus, after she had been twelve months according to the law regarding the women (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with aromatic odours and oils for women),