1 Daarna het koning Ahasv,ros 'n belasting op die land en op die kuslande van die see gelê.

2 En al die dade van sy mag en sterkte en die noukeurige berig oor die grootheid van Mordegai waartoe die koning hom verhoog het, is dit nie beskrywe in die kroniekboek van die konings van Medië en Persië nie?

3 Want die Jood Mordegai was die tweede in rang onder koning Ahasv,ros; en hy was groot by die Jode en 'n liefling by die menigte van sy broers, omdat hy die heil van sy volk gesoek en tot welsyn van sy hele nageslag gespreek het.

1 And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.

2 And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?

3 For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.