CHAPTER 10
1And King Ahasuerus imposed forced labor on all the land and on the coastlands. 2And all the acts of his authority and his might and the account of Mordecai’s greatness to which the king raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of the Kings of Media and Persia? 3For Mordecai the Jew was second to King Ahasuerus and great over the Jews, in favor with his many brothers, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace for all its seed.