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1 Na rĩrĩ, Mũthamaki Ahasuerusu nĩeetagia igooti mabũrũri marĩa mothe aathanaga, o nginya icigĩrĩra ciakuo cia kũraya.

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 Ha ũhoro wa ciĩko ciake cia hinya na ũhoti, hamwe na ũhoro wothe wa ũnene wa Moridekai, nginya harĩa mũthamaki aamũnenehetie-rĩ, githĩ ti mwandĩke mabuku-inĩ ma maũndũ ma athamaki a Media na Perisia?

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 Moridekai ũrĩa Mũyahudi aarĩ wa keerĩ wathani-inĩ kuuma he Mũthamaki Ahasuerusu, na nĩeetĩkĩrĩtwo nĩ Ayahudi ta mũnene wao, na agatĩĩka mũno kũrĩ Ayahudi ao aingĩ, tondũ aacaragĩria andũ ake maũndũ mega, na akaarĩrĩria kũgaacĩra kwa Ayahudi othe.

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.