Esther 10

1 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.

Kuningas Ahasveros saattoi työveron alaisiksi sekä mannermaan että merensaaret.

2 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.

Ja kaikki hänen valta-ja urotyönsä ja kertomus Mordokain suuruudesta, johon kuningas hänet korotti, ne ovat kirjoitettuina Meedian ja Persian kuningasten aikakirjassa.

3 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.

Sillä juutalainen Mordokai oli kuningas Ahasveroksen lähin mies ja oli suuri juutalaisten keskuudessa ja rakas lukuisille veljillensä, koska hän harrasti kansansa parasta ja puhui koko heimonsa onnen puolesta.