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1 Och Konung Ahasveros lade en skatt uppå landet, och uppå öarna i hafvet.

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 Men allt det under hans våld och magt skedde, och om den stora härlighet, som Konungen gaf Mardechai, si, det är skrifvet uti de Konungars Chrönico i Meden och Persien.

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 Ty Mardechai den Juden var den andre näst Konungenom Ahasveros, och stor ibland Judarna, och täck för alla sina bröder; den der sökte det godt var för sitt folk, och talade det bästa för allo sino säd.

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.