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Esther · read by Hattie Hammond
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Esther 2
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And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.Read from KJV · Process of Becoming a Bride - Part 1
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Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.Read from KJV · Process of Becoming a Bride - Part 1
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And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther's welfare and what was happening to her.Read from KJV · Process of Becoming a Bride - Part 1
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In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.Read from KJV · Process of Becoming a Bride - Part 1
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When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.Read from KJV · Process of Becoming a Bride - Part 1
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She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.Read from KJV · Process of Becoming a Bride - Part 1
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And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.Read from KJV · Process of Becoming a Bride - Part 1