Ester 10

1 El rey Jerjes impuso impuestos en todo el imperio, incluso en sus costas más lejanas.

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 Todo lo que logró con su poder y su fuerza, así como el relato completo de la alta posición a la que el rey ascendió a Mardoqueo, están escritos en el Libro de las Actas de los reyes de Media y Persia.

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 Porque el judío Mardoqueo era el segundo al mando del rey Jerjes, líder de los judíos y muy respetado en la comunidad judía, trabajó para ayudar a su pueblo y para mejorar la seguridad de todos los judíos.

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.