# Connecting Statement:

This continues the background information about Mordecai and explains his relationship to Esther. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])

# Hadassah

This is Esther's Hebrew name. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

# his uncle's daughter

"his cousin"

# she had neither father nor mother

"her father and mother had died"

# took her as his own daughter

"cared for her as if she was his own daughter"