1And King Akhashiresh laid a tax upon all the land and upon the islands of the sea. 2And all the acts of his strength and his heroism and the glory of the greatness of Murdacai with which the King promoted him, behold, it is written in the scroll of the Words of Days of the Kings of Media and Persia. 3For Murdacai the Jew was second to King Akhashiresh, and he was the great one over the Jews, and was seeking the good of his people, and was speaking for all its offspring.