Ester 10

1 El rey Asuero impuso un tributo en la tierra y en las islas del 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 ¿No están escritos en el libro de las crónicas de los reyes de Media y de Persia todos los actos de su poder y de su fuerza, y la relación completa de la grandeza de Mardoqueo, a la que el rey le hizo avanzar?

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 Mardoqueo, el judío, estaba junto al rey Asuero, y era grande entre los judíos y aceptado por la multitud de sus hermanos, buscando el bien de su pueblo y hablando de paz a todos sus descendientes.

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.