10Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.
10Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.
7 Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.
8 When the king's order and edict had been proclaimed, many girls were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king's palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem.
9 The girl pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven maids selected from the king's palace and moved her and her maids into the best place in the harem.
10 Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.
11 Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.
12 Before a girl'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 and cosmetics.
2:10Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew [it. ]
2:10And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For Mardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:
2:10Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.
2:10Esther had not made known her people nor her birth; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.
2:10Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
2:10Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it.
2:10Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.
2:10Esther hath not declared her people, and her kindred, for Mordecai hath laid a charge on her that she doth not declare it;
2:10Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it.