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# Connecting Statement:
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This continues the background information about Mordecai and explains his relationship to Esther. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])
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# Hadassah
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This is Esther's Hebrew name. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# his uncle's daughter
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"his cousin"
# she had neither father nor mother
"her father and mother had died"
# took her as his own daughter
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"cared for her as if she was his own daughter"