Esther 2:10-14

Esther did not reveal her people or her kindred, because Mordecai had instructed her that she was not to reveal them.

And every day Mordecai walked back and forth in front of the courtyard of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her.

Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after the end of her twelve months under the regulations for the women—for the days of their beauty treatment were completed as follows: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with balsam oil and the cosmetics for women—

the young woman would go in to the king in this way: anything that she desired was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

In the evening she would enter and in the morning she would return to the second harem, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.