Est Esther, chapter Book of Esther, chapter 2
Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Achashverosh [I will be silent and poor], after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, [that is to say], six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with [other] things for the purifying of the women;)