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.

Wa Asyeris te bay lòd pou tout moun ki rete nan peyi a, ata moun nan zile yo, peye yon lajan.

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.

Yo ekri tou sa wa a te fè nan gwo liv istwa wa peyi Medi ak peyi Pès yo. Yo di tout bèl bagay li te fè, jan li te yon vanyan gason. Yo bay tout ti detay sou jan li te rive mete Madoche nan gwo plas sa a.

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.

Madoche, nonm jwif la, te sèl chèf apre wa Asyeris. Tout jwif parèy li yo te respekte l', yo te renmen l' anpil. Li te travay anpil pou byen pèp la, li te vle pou tout moun nan ras jwif la viv ak kè poze.