Ester 10

1 El rey Asuero impuso un tributo a la tierra y a las islas del mar.

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 Y todos los actos de su poder, y sus hazañas, y los detalles de la grandeza a la cual el rey elevó a Mardoqueo, ¿no están escritos en el libro de los anales de los reyes de Media y 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 Porque el judío Mardoqueo era segundo después del rey Asuero, el más eminente entre los judíos, y amado de todos sus hermanos, porque procuraba el bien de su pueblo e intercedía por la prosperidad de su nación.

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.