Online Bible: New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

1 And King A·has·u·e´rus proceeded to lay forced labor upon the land and the isles of the sea.

2 As for all his energetic work and his mightiness and the exact statement of Mor´de·cai’s greatness with which the king magnified him, are they not written in the Book of the affairs of the times of the kings of Me´di·a and Persia? 3 For Mor´de·cai the Jew was second to King A·has·u·e´rus and was great among the Jews and approved by the multitude of his brothers, working for the good of his people and speaking peace to all their offspring.