Esther

Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

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.