3 and let the king appoint commissioners in all the jurisdictional districts+ of his realm, and let them collect together all the young women, virgins, beautiful in appearance, at Shuʹshan the castle,+ at the house of the women in charge of Hegʹa·i+ the king’s eunuch,+ the guardian of the women; and let there be a giving* of their massages.

12 And when the turn of each young woman arrived to go in to King A·has·u·eʹrus after it had happened to her according to the women’s regulation for twelve months, for that was the way the days of their massage procedure were gradually fulfilled, six months with oil of myrrh+ and six months with balsam oil+ and with the massages of the women;