¹And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

¹In kralj Ahasver je naložil davek zemlji in otokom na morju.

²And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

²In vsa dejanja njegove oblasti in moči njegove in natančno poročilo o velikosti Mardohejevi, do katere ga je kralj povzdignil, ni li zapisano v knjigi letopisov kraljev Medije in Perzije?Zakaj Mardohej Jud je bil drugi za kraljem Ahasverom in velik med Judi in priljubljen množici bratov svojih, ker si je prizadeval za dobrine ljudstva svojega in govoril mir vsemu zarodu njegovemu.

³For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

³Zakaj Mardohej Jud je bil drugi za kraljem Ahasverom in velik med Judi in priljubljen množici bratov svojih, ker si je prizadeval za dobrine ljudstva svojega in govoril mir vsemu zarodu njegovemu.