unto the custody] Heb. unto the hand. Hege] Or, Hegai] Verse 8. keeper of the women] The abuse of these countreys was so great, that they invented many means to serve the lusts of princes; and therefore, as they ordained wicked laws, That the king might have whose daughters he would, so they had divers houses appointed, as, one for them while they were virgins here, another when they were concubines, v. 14. for purification] Read what this purification was, v. 12.