Ester 2:12

E, ao chegar o momento de cada moça se apresentar ao rei Assuero, após ter cumprido o tempo de preparação conforme as normas para as mulheres, que era de doze meses — seis meses com óleo de mirra e seis meses com especiarias e outros unguentos usados entre as mulheres —,

Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)