Then Israel said to him, ‘Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me.’ So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.
After some time had passed, Paul said to Barnabas, ‘Let’s go back and visit the brothers and sisters in every town where we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they’re doing.’
During the year before each young woman’s turn to go to King Ahasuerus, the harem regulation required her to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.