13And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.


In Context

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.

13 And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.

14 In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.

15 When the turn came for Esther (the girl Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.

Esther 2:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then 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 the king’s house.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:13And when they were going in to the king, whatsoever they asked to adorn themselves they received: and being decked out, as it pleased them, they passed from the chamber of the women to the king's chamber.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:13then in this wise came the maiden unto the king: whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13and thus came the maiden in unto the king), whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:13then in this wise came the maiden unto the king, whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13Then thus came every maiden to the king; whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women's house to the king's house.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13and with this the young woman hath come in unto the king, all that she saith is given to her, to go in with her, out of the house of the women, unto the house of the king;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13Then thus came every maiden to the king; whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.