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.

Koning Achasjwerosj maakte zowel de eilanden als het vaste land schatplichtig.

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.

Al zijn geweldige en machtige daden, met het bericht over de waardigheid, waartoe de koning Mordokai verhief, staan beschreven in het boek der Kronieken van de koningen der Meden en Perzen.

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.

Want de Jood Mordokai bleef de eerste na koning Achasjwerosj. Ook stond hij in aanzien bij de Joden, en was bemind bij zijn talrijke broeders; want hij meende het goed met zijn volk, en zocht het welzijn van heel zijn geslacht.