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.

Написа же царь по всему царствию своему, еже на земли и на мори,

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.

и силу свою, и мужественная исправления, богатство же и славу царствия своего: се, писана суть в книзе царей Персских и Мидских, на память.

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.

Мардохей бо вторый бе по цари Артаксерксе, и велик бе во царствии и прославлен от Иудей и любимь, поведаше содеянная всему языку своему.