OLD TESTAMENT

Esther 2:10

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But Esther didn’t reveal her family or her kindred, for Mordecai had charged her not to tell.

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Verse 10. Would. Hebrew “had not declared.” He was not influenced to treat her thus on account of her royal extraction. Bible.—In effect, the Jews were despised. Calmet.

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