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.

Потом наложил царь Артаксеркс подать на землю и на острова морские.

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.

Впрочем, все дела силы его и могущества его и обстоятельное показание о величии Мардохея, которым возвеличил его царь, записаны в книге дневных записей царей Мидийских и Персидских,

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.

равно как и то, что Мардохей Иудеянин был вторым по царе Артаксерксе и великим у Иудеев и любимым у множества братьев своих, ибо искал добра народу своему и говорил во благо всего племени своего.