Thematic Bible: Peculiar customs in

And the drinking was in keeping with the law; no one was forced: for the king had given orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man. Verse ConceptsAbstinenceAlcohol ConsumptionUnlimitednessNo Compulsion

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean): And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.