her cousin Mordecai, who had raised her since her parents died. No one cal

. She was part of a people who had once lived in Jerusalem but had been taken into

looking for girls to bring to

n't op

e year, they were given perfumes, oils, and fine clothes. But Esthe

the sight of all them that l

ing extra. She wore only what the king's servant, Hegai, rec

the women... so that he set the roy

ed and unknown, had b

people. Mordecai had warned

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