And after these matters was abated the king's rage, and no longer was mentioned of Vashti, remembering as much as she spoke, and how he condemned her.
And said the servants of the king, Let there be sought to the king young women uncorrupted, beautiful in appearance!
And shall place the king magistrates in all the places of his kingdom, and let them choose young women, virgins, beautiful in appearance to be brought to Shushan the city, into the chamber of the women! And let them be delivered to the eunuch of the king, the keeper of the women! And let there be given to them a beauty treatment, and the remaining care!
And the woman who ever should be pleasing to the king shall reign instead of Vashti. And pleased the king the thing, and he did so.
And there was a man, a Jew, in Shushan the city. And his name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin;
who was a captive from Jerusalem, which captured Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon.
And there was to this man a child that he brought up, the daughter of the brother of his father, and her name was Esther. And at the changeover of her the parents, he instructed her to himself for a woman. And was the young woman good in appearance.
And when was heard the king's order, were gathered together many young women in Shushan the city, by the hand of Hegai; and Esther was led to Hegai the keeper of the women.
And pleased him the young woman, and she found favor before him. And he hastened to give her the beauty treatment, and her portion, and the seven young women being exhibited to her from the royal palace. And he treated her well, and her handmaidens in the chamber of the women.
But did not plainly show Esther her race, nor her fatherland. For Mordecai gave charge to her not to report it.
And each day Mordecai walked by the courtyard the feminine, overseeing what would come to pass with Esther.
For this was the time for a young woman to enter to the king, whenever she should have fulfilled months twelve, for thus are fulfilled the days of the treatment, months six with the aromatics and with the beauty treatments of the women,
and months six being anointed with myrrh oil, and then she enters to the king. And to whom ever he should tell, he delivers her to enter together with him, from the chamber of the women unto the palaces.
In the evening she enters, and by day she runs to the chamber of the women the second, where Hegai the eunuch of the king the keeper of the women is. And no longer does she enter to the king if she should not be called by name.
And in the fulfilling the time, Esther the daughter of Abihail, brother of the father of Mordecai, entered to the king. Not one thing she disregarded which gave charge to her the eunuch the keeper of the women. For was Esther found in favor by all the ones seeing her.
And Esther entered to Artaxerxes the king in the tenth month, which is Tebeth, in the seventh year of his kingship.
And loved the king Esther, and she found favor above all the virgins; and he placed upon her the diadem the feminine.
And made the king a banquet for all his friends, and the powerful ones, for days seven. And he exalted the wedding feasts of Esther; and a release he made to the ones under his kingdom.
But Mordecai attended to affairs in the courtyard.
Now Esther did not plainly tell her fatherland, for thus gave charge to her Mordecai, to fear the God, and to observe his orders, as she was with him. And Esther did not change her conduct.
And fretted the two eunuchs of the king, and the chiefs of the body guards, for Mordecai advanced. And they sought to kill Artaxerxes the king.
And was made manifest the matter to Mordecai, and he signaled it to Esther, and she revealed to the king the things of the plot.
And the king examined the two eunuchs, and he hanged them. And gave order the king to write for a memorial in the royal library about the good-will of Mordecai with commendation.