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King Zerk-sees (Xerxes) and More-dek-eye (Mordecai)
1 King Zerk-sees said that everybody in every part of his country had to pay tax money. 2 In those days, everything the kings did in the country of Persia and Media were written down in The Book about the Persian Nation. All the great and powerful things King Zerk-sees did were written down in that book. In the same way, all the story of how Zerk-sees made More-dek-eye a great man was written down in that record book too. 3 More-dek-eye the Jew was the second leader behind King Zerk-sees and he was the most important man for the Jewish people. More-dek-eye worked hard for his people so that good things would happen to them. He would go and talk to the king to make sure that his people were safe and that is why they all respected him.