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.

Ja kuningas Ahasverus laski veron maan päälle ja luotoin päälle merellä.

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.

Mutta kaikki hänen työnsä, voimansa ja väkevyytensä, ja Mordekain suuri kunnia, kuin kuningas hänen suureksi teki: eikö ne ole kirjoitetut Median 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 Mordekai, Juudalainen, oli toinen kuningas Ahasveruksesta, ja väkevä Juudalaisten seassa, ja otollinen veljeinsä paljouden keskellä, joka etsi kansansa parasta ja puhui parhain päin kaiken siemenensä puolesta.