Ester 10

1 Kalpasanna, nangituyang ni Ari Ahasuero iti panagbuis kadagiti daga ken kadagiti daga iti igid ti baybay.

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 Amin dagiti nagun-od ti pannakabalinna ken kinamaingelna, agraman ti pakasaritaan ti kinatan-ok ni Mardokeo, isu a nangitan-okan kenkuana ti ari, naisurat dagitoy Iti Libro dagiti Cronicas dagiti Ari ti Media ken Persia.

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 Ni Mardokeo a Judio ti maikadua iti saad ni Ari Ahasuero. Natan-ok isuna kadagiti Judio ken nalatak kadagiti adu a kakabsatna a Judio, gapu ta kinalikagumanna ti pagsayaatan dagiti tattaona, ken nagsao para iti kinatalna dagiti amin a tattaona.

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.