Esther 2:10
King James VersionSource notes
“Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew”
Context
7And he brought up Hadassah, that Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
8So 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.
9And 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, meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best of the house of the women.
10Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew
11And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
12Now 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, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with things for the purifying of the women;)
13Then thus came 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.