Esther 10

1 Puis le roi Assuérus imposa un tribut au pays et aux 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 Or, quant à tous les actes de sa puissance et à ses exploits, et à la description de la grandeur à laquelle le roi éleva Mardochée, ces choses ne sont-elles pas écrites 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 fut le second après le roi Assuérus, et il fut grand parmi les Juifs et agréable à 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.