Ester 2:9-10

2:9 This young woman pleased him, ¹  and she found favor with him. He quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her rations; he also provided her with the seven specially chosen ²  young women who were from the palace. He then transferred her and her young women to the best quarters in the harem. ³ 

2:10 Now Esther had not disclosed her people or her lineage, ⁴  for Mordecai had instructed her not to do so. ⁵ 

Ester 2:15

2:15 When it became the turn of Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai (who had raised her as if she were his own daughter ⁶ ) to go to the king, she did not request anything except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who was overseer of the women, had recommended. Yet Esther met with the approval of all who saw her.

[2:9]  ¹ tn Heb “was good in his eyes”; NLT “Hegai was very impressed with Esther.”

[2:9]  ² tn Heb “being looked at (with favor).”

[2:9]  ³ tn Heb “of the house of the women” (so KJV, ASV). So also in vv. 11, 13, 14.

[2:10]  ⁴ tn Cf. v. 20, where the same phrase occurs but with the word order reversed.

[2:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “that she not tell” (NRSV similar); NASB “that she should not make them known.”

[2:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “who had taken her to him as a daughter”; NRSV “who had adopted her as his own daughter.”