Esther 10

1 Le roi Assuérus établit un tribut sur le continent et les îles de la mer.

King Xerxes required that all the people in his empire pay taxes. Even the people who lived on the islands [in the Mediterranean Sea] (OR, in coastal areas) were required to pay taxes.

2 Tous les faits concernant sa puissance et ses exploits, et les détails sur la grandeur à laquelle le roi éleva Mardochée, cela n'est-il pas écrit dans le livre des Chroniques des rois de Médie et de Perse?

And all the great and powerful things that Xerxes did were written in the scroll called/entitled ‘The record of the things done by the kings of Media and Persia’. In this book were also written [the things done] by Mordecai, the man whom the king had greatly honored.

3 Car le Juif Mardochée était le premier ministre du roi Assuérus, considéré en même temps parmi les Juifs, aimé de la multitude de ses frères, recherchant le bien de son peuple et parlant pour le bonheur de toute sa race.

Mordecai, who was a Jew, became the king’s most important official, and [all] the Jews also considered him to be a very great man. They [all] respected him, because he did many good things for the Jews, and he often asked [the king] to do good things for them.