Esther 2:12
In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
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Cross references
- Proverbs 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4–5 each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- Isaiah 57:9 You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.