استر 10

۱ 1 و اخشورش پادشاه بر زمینها و جزایردریا جزیه گذارد،

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.

۲ 2 و جمیع اعمال قوت و توانایی او و تفصیل عظمت مردخای که چگونه پادشاه او را معظم ساخت، آیا در کتاب تواریخ ایام پادشاهان مادی و فارس مکتوب نیست؟

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.

۳ 3 زیرا که مردخای یهودی، بعد ازاخشورش پادشاه، شخص دوم بود و در میان یهود محترم و نزد جمعیت برادران خویش مقبول شده، سعادتمندی قوم خویش رامی طلبید و برای تمامی ابنای جنس خود، سخنان صلح‌آمیز می‌گفت. مقبول شده، سعادتمندی قوم خویش رامی طلبید و برای تمامی ابنای جنس خود، سخنان صلح‌آمیز می‌گفت.

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.