Esther 10

1 Şi împăratul Ahaşveroş a aşezat un tribut asupra ţării şi asupra insulelor mării.

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 Şi toate faptele puterii lui, şi ale tăriei lui, şi declaraţia măreţiei lui Mardoheu, la care l-a avansat împăratul, nu sunt scrise ele în cartea cronicilor împăraţilor Mediei şi ai Persiei?

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 Căci Mardoheu, iudeul, a fost primul după împăratul Ahaşveroş, şi mare printre iudei, şi primit de mulţimea fraţilor săi, căutând bunăstarea poporului său, şi vorbind pace către toată sămânţa sa.

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.