Ester 10

1 Raja Ahasyweros mengadakan kerja paksa, bukan hanya pada rakyat di daerah-daerah pantai laut dalam kerajaannya, tetapi juga di daerah-daerah pedalaman.

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 Segala perbuatannya yang besar dan hebat, dan juga kisah lengkap tentang bagaimana ia mengangkat Mordekhai menjadi pejabat tinggi, tercatat dalam buku sejarah raja-raja Persia dan Media.

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 Mordekhai, orang Yahudi itu tetap menduduki jabatan tertinggi di bawah Raja Ahasyweros sendiri. Mordekhai dihormati dan disukai oleh orang-orang sebangsanya. Ia berjuang untuk keselamatan dan kesejahteraan bangsanya serta seluruh keturunan mereka.

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.