Ezra 4:9Wycliffe's Bible with Modern SpellingRehum, B’el T’em, and Shimshai, the scribe, and [the] other counsellors of them, Dinaites, Apharsathchites, and Tarpelites, Apharistes, Archevites, men of Babylon, Susanchites, Dehavites, men of Elam, See the chapter |
and be there men sent forth, which should behold by all provinces damsels who be fair and virgins; and bring they them to the city of Susa, and betake they them into the house of women, under the keeping of Hegai, the honest servant and chaste, the which is the sovereign and keeper of the king’s women; and take those damsels ornaments of women, and other things needful to their uses.