King James Version with Apocrypha
"Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it."
— Esther 2:10, King James Version with Apocrypha
“Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.”
“Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known. ”
“Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.”
“Now Esther had not disclosed her people or her lineage, for Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.”
“And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For Mardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:”
“Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so.”
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
So it came to pass, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Then 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.