Eseza 10

1 Kabaka Akaswero n’asalira abantu bonna ab’obwakabaka bwe omusolo, abaabeeranga ku lukalu n’abo abaabeeranga ku bizinga.

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 Era ebikolwa bye byonna eby’obuyinza n’amaanyi ge, n’okutegeereza ddala obukulu bwa Moluddekaayi, Kabaka bwe yamukuza, byawandiikibwa mu kitabo eky’ebyomumirembe gya bassekabaka b’e Bumeedi n’e Buperusi.

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 Moluddekaayi Omuyudaaya ye yali addirira Kabaka Akaswero mu buyinza, era yali mukulu mu Bayudaaya ate nga bamussaamu nnyo ekitiibwa, kubanga yakolanga bulungi abantu be, ate era ng’ayagaliza ezzadde lye lyonna emirembe.

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.