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.

Depois d'isto poz o rei Assuero tributo sobre a terra, e sobre as ilhas do mar,

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.

E todas as obras do seu poder e do seu valor, e a declaração da grandeza de Mardoqueo, a quem o rei engrandeceu, porventura não estão escriptas no livro das chronicas dos reis da Media e da Persia?

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.

Porque o judeo Mardoqueo foi o segundo depois do rei Assuero, e grande para com os judeos, e agradavel para com a multidão de seus irmãos, que procurava o bem do seu povo, e fallava pela prosperidade de toda a sua nação.