¹And King Ahasuerus laid forced labor on the land and the coastlands of the sea.

²And all the work of his strength and his valor, and the exact account of the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king made great — are they not written in the record of the words of the days of the kings of Media and Persia?

³For Mordecai the Jew was second to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking good for his people and speaking wholeness to all his seed.