Esther 10

1 Et le roi Assuérus imposa une corvée au pays et aux îles de la mer.

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 Et tous les actes de son autorité et de sa puissance, et l'exposé de la grandeur de Mardochée, à laquelle le roi l'avait élevé, sont d'ailleurs consignés dans le livre des Annales des rois des Mèdes et Perses.

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 Car Mardochée, le Juif, était le second après le roi Assuérus, et il était grand auprès des Juifs, et agréable à la multitude de ses frères, cherchant le bien de son peuple et parlant pour le salut de toute sa race.

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.