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.

アハシュエロス王はその国および海に沿った国々にみつぎを課した。

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.

彼の権力と勢力によるすべての事業、および王がモルデカイを高い地位にのぼらせた事の詳しい話はメデアとペルシャの王たちの日誌の書にしるされているではないか。

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.

ユダヤ人モルデカイはアハシュエロス王に次ぐ者となり、ユダヤ人の中にあって大いなる者となり、その多くの兄弟に喜ばれた。彼はその民の幸福を求め、すべての国民に平和を述べたからである。