Eszter 10

1 Ahasvéros király adót vetett ki az országra és a tenger szigeteire.

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 Minden nevezetes hőstette és Mordecháj nagyságának a leírása, akit kitüntetett a király – mindez meg van írva a méd és perzsa királyok történetének könyvében.

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 Mert a zsidó Mordecháj második ember volt Ahasvéros király után, tekintélyes volt a zsidók között, és honfitársai többsége kedvelte őt, mert népe javát kereste és nemzetségének békéjén tevékenykedett.

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.