Esterin 10

1 Ja kuningas Ahasverus laski veron maan päälle ja luotoin päälle merellä.

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.

2 Mutta kaikki hänen työnsä, voimansa ja väkevyytensä, ja Mordekain suuri kunnia, kuin kuningas hänen suureksi teki: eikö ne ole kirjoitetut Median ja Persian kuningasten aikakirjassa?

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.

3 Sillä Mordekai, Juudalainen, oli toinen kuningas Ahasveruksesta, ja väkevä Juudalaisten seassa, ja otollinen veljeinsä paljouden keskellä, joka etsi kansansa parasta ja puhui parhain päin kaiken siemenensä puolesta.

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.