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.

Och konung Ahasveros tog skatt både av fastlandet och av öarna i havet.

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.

Och allt vad han i sin makt och sin väldighet gjorde, ävensom berättelsen om den storhet, till vilken konungen upphöjde Mordokai, det finnes upptecknat i de mediska och persiska konungarnas krönika.

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.

Ty juden Mordokai var konung Ahasveros' närmaste man, och han var stor bland judarna och älskad av alla sina bröder, eftersom han sökte sitt folks bästa och lade sig ut för alla sina landsmän till deras välfärd.