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 król Aswerus nałożył podatek na [swoją] ziemię 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.

A wszystkie dzieła jego potęgi i mocy oraz opis wielkości Mardocheusza, którą wyróżnił go król, czy nie są zapisane w księgach kronik królów Medii i Persji?

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.

Żyd Mardocheusz [był] bowiem drugi po królu Aswerusie, wielki w oczach Żydów i cieszący się uznaniem wśród wielu swoich braci, troszczył się o dobro swego ludu i głosił pokój całemu swemu ludowi.