Esther 2:5-7

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁵ Now there was at the citadel in Susa a Jew whose name was ^(A)Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, ^6 (B)who had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the captives who had been exiled with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had exiled. ⁷ He was bringing up Hadassah, that is ^(C)Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful of form and ^[a]face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.