Esther 10

1 Ensuite le roi Assuérus imposa un tribut aux pays de terre ferme et aux îles de la mer.

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 Quant aux hauts faits de sa force et de sa puissance et à l’exposé détaillé de la grandeur de Mardochée, que le roi lui avait conférée, ils sont notés dans le livre des Chroniques des rois de Médie et de Perse.

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 Car le juif Mardochée venait en second après le roi Assuérus; il était grand aux yeux des juifs, aimé de la foule de ses frères; il recherchait le bien de son peuple et défendait la cause de toute sa race.

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.