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1 Sarki Zerzes ya sa a biya haraji a ko’ina a cikin daular, har zuwa ƙasashe masu nesa na bakin teku.

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 Dukan ayyukan Sarki Zerzes masu iko da masu girma tare da cikakken rahoton girmama Mordekai wanda sarki ya yi masa, ba a rubuce suke a cikin littafin tarihin sarakunan Mediya da na Farisa ba?

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 Mordekai mutumin Yahuda, shi ne na biyu a matsayi bayan Sarki Zerzes, mai farin ciki kuma a cikin Yahudawa, aka kuma ɗauke shi da martaba cikin’yan’uwansa Yahudawa. Gama ya yi aiki don kyautatawar mutanensa, ya kuma yi magana don a kyautata rayuwar dukan Yahudawa.

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.