Nehemiah 5:15-17

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁵ The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people, and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God. ¹⁶ Indeed, I devoted myself to the work on this wall, and acquired no land; and all my servants were gathered there for the work. ¹⁷ Moreover there were at my table one hundred fifty people, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations around us.