Rashi, on Esth 2:10

“And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For Mardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:”

“not to reveal so that they should say that she was from an ignoble family and dismiss her, for if they knew that she was of the family of King Saul, they would detain her.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.