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Job’s three friends visit him in his suffering. His three daughters are named at the end of the book.
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Esther and Mordecai: family connections
Mordecai is Esther’s cousin and raises her after her parents die. Her father’s name varies by edition.
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Mordecai Mordecai is a cousin of Esther.
Source: Esther 2:5; Esther 2:7
Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
Read Esther 2:5And 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.
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Mordecai Mordecai raised Esther.
Source: Esther 2:5; Esther 2:7
Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
Read Esther 2:5And 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.
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Abihail, father of Esther Abihail is the father of Esther.
Source: Esther 2:15
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
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Bible edition: King James Version
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Jair is the father of Mordecai.
Source: Esther 2:5
Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
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Mordecai is a cousin of Esther.
Source: Esther 2:5; Esther 2:7
Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
Read Esther 2:5And 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.
Read Esther 2:7 -
Mordecai raised Esther.
Source: Esther 2:5; Esther 2:7
Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
Read Esther 2:5And 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.
Read Esther 2:7 -
Abihail is the father of Esther.
Source: Esther 2:15
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Read Esther 2:15
A question to carry into your reading
Mordecai takes Esther in and keeps watching over her. Who has stepped in to care for you, and who might need that care from you?
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