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In the evening she would go in and in the morning she would return to the secondharem*, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king'seunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not againgo in to the kingunless* the kingdelighted in her and she was summoned by name.
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Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecaiwho had taken her as his daughter, came to go in to the king, she did not requestanythingexcept*whatHegai, the king'seunuch who was in charge of the women, advised. And Estherfoundfavor in the eyes of all who saw her.