Esther 2:10-12

21st Century King James Version

¹⁰ Esther had not shown her people nor her kindred, for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it.

¹¹ And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house to know how Esther did and what should become of her.

¹² Now when every maid’s turn had come to go in to King Ahasuerus, after she had been twelve months according to the manner of the women (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with other things for the purifying of the women),