Verse 12

And whan the appoynted tyme of euery damsell came that she shulde come to ye kynge Ahasuerus, after that she had bene twolue monethes in the deckynge of the wemen (for their deckynge must haue so moch tyme, namely sixe monethes with Balme & Myrre, & sixe monethes wt good spyces, so were the weme beutifyed)

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 7:17 : 17 My bed haue I made to smell of Myrre, Aloes and Cynamom.
  • Song 3:6 : 6 Who is this, that commeth out of ye wyldernesse like pilers of smoke, as it were a smell of Myrre, frankencense and all maner spyces of the Apotecary?
  • Isa 57:9 : 9 Thou wentest straight to kinges with oyle & dyuerse oyntmentes (that is) thou hast sent thy messaungers farre of, and yet art thou fallen in to the pyt therby.
  • Luke 7:37-38 : 37 And beholde, there was in the cite a woma, which was a synner. Whe she knewe that Iesus sat at the table in the Pharises house, she brought a boxe with oyntment, 38 & stode behynde at his fete, and wepte, and beganne to water his fete with teares, and to drye the wt the hayres of hir heade, and kyssed his fete, & anoynted the with oyntmet.
  • 1 Thess 4:4-5 : 4 yt euery one of you shulde knowe how to kepe his vessell in holynes and honoure, 5 & not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Heythen which knowe not God.