Ester 10

1 E o rei Assuero impôs um tributo sobre a terra e [sobre] as ilhas do mar.

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 E todas as obras de seu poder e de seu valor, e a declaração da grandeza de Mardoqueu, a quem o rei engrandeceu, por acaso não estão escritas no livro das crônicas dos reis da Média e da Pérsia?

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 Pois o judeu Mardoqueu foi o segundo depois do rei Assuero, e grande entre os judeus, e agradável à multidão de seus irmãos, procurando o bem de seu povo, e falando prosperidade para todo o seu povo.

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.