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 Assuérus imposa une corvée au pays et aux îles 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 tous les actes de son autorité et de sa puissance, et l'exposé de la grandeur de Mardochée, à laquelle le roi l'avait élevé, sont d'ailleurs consignés dans le livre des Annales des rois des Mèdes et Perses.

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.

Car Mardochée, le Juif, était le second après le roi Assuérus, et il était grand auprès des Juifs, et agréable à la multitude de ses frères, cherchant le bien de son peuple et parlant pour le salut de toute sa race.