⁹ She pleased him and won his favor.^(A) Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food.^(B) He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem.

¹² Before a young woman’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes^(A) and cosmetics.