BRAGADAYJAH 1219

BRAGADAYJAH 1219
Esther Chosen as Queen
So then after twelve month, the time it took for the maidens to be purified, six months of which were for the purification in oils of myrrh, and the further six months with sweet odours and other thing used in the purification of women, all the maids then appeared unto the king. And whatsoever she desired was given her to go out of the house of the women unto the king’s house. In the evening she went and on the morrow she returned to the second house of the women under the custody of Shaashgaz the king’s chamberlain who kept the concubines. And she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name. Now when the turn of Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her for her daughter, was come to go before the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain had given her. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of the king of all them that looked upon her. So Ether was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house on the tenth month which is the month Tebeth in the seventeenth year of his reign. The king loved Esther more than all the other women and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the others; and he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her Queen instead of Vashti. Then the ling made a great feast unto all his princes and to all his servants even a feast for Esther, and he gave gifts to all the provinces according to his pleasure.

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