Esther 2:12

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),

Esther 2:12 In-Context

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),
13 then thus came every maiden unto the king. Whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto he king's house.
14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned to the second house of the women to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, who kept the concubines. She came in unto the king no more unless the king delighted in her and she were called by name.
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