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Let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select beautiful, chaste young ladies and bring them to the city Susa, into the women’s apartment. Let them be consigned to the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women. Then let things for purification and other needs be given to them.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. House. Distinct from the palace, verse 14.—Women‘s. Hebrew “things for rubbing, ( Calmet.) or purification;” ( Bible.) such as perfumes, but not clothes.
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