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.

Potem ułożył król Aswerus podatek na ziemię swoję, i na wyspy morskie.

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.

Awszystkie sprawy mocy jego, i możności jego, z opisaniem zacności Mardocheuszowej, którą go wielmożnym uczynił król, to zapisano w księgach kronik o królach Medskich i Perskich.

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.

Albowiem Mardocheusz Żyd był wtórym po królu Aswerusie, i wielkim u Żydów, i zacny u mnóstwa braci swych, starając się o dobro ludu swego, i sprawując pokój wszystkiemu narodowi swemu.