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.

Et le roi écrivit ce qui concernait l'empire de la terre et de la mer;

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.

Et sa puissance, et sa valeur, et ses richesses, et sa gloire, sont décrites dans le livre des rois des Perses et des Mèdes, comme un mémorial.

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.

Et Mardochée fut le lieutenant du roi Artaxerxès, et il fut grand dans le royaume, et il fut glorifié par les Juifs; et, aimé de tous, il exposa la suite de l'événement à tout son peuple.