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1 Kong Ahasverus lagde Skat paa Fastlandet og Kystlandene.

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 Og alt, hvad han gjorde i sin Magt og Vælde, og en nøjagtig Skildring af den høje Værdighed, Kongen ophøjede Mordokaj til, staar optegnet i Mediens og Persiens Kongers Krønike.

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 Thi Jøden Mordokaj havde den højeste Værdighed efter Kong Ahasverus, og han stod i høj Anseelse hos Jøderne og var elsket af sine mange Landsmænd, fordi han virkede for sit Folks vel og talte til Bedste for al sin Slægt.

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.