Nehemiah 5:15-17

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁵ But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sides: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

¹⁶ Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land, and all my servants were gathered together to the work.

¹⁷ The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred and fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from among the nations that were round about us.