⁹ Now the young lady pleased him and found favor with him. So he quickly provided her with her ^(A)cosmetics and ^[a]food, gave her seven choice female attendants from the king’s palace, and transferred her and her attendants to the best place in the harem.

¹² Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after the end of her twelve months under the regulations for the women—for the days of their beauty treatment were completed as follows: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with balsam oil and the cosmetics for women—