Ester 10

1 Y el rey Asuero impuso tributo sobre la tierra y 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 Y toda la obra de su fortaleza, y de su valor, y la declaración de la grandeza de Mardoqueo, con que el rey le engrandeció, ¿no está escrito en el libro de los anales de los reyes de Media y de 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 Mardoqueo judío fue segundo después del rey Asuero, y grande entre los judíos, y acepto a la multitud de sus hermanos, procurando el bien de su pueblo, y hablando paz para toda su simiente.

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.