Nehemiah 5:15-17

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁵ For the former governors who were before me had laid burdens on the people, and had taken bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yea, and their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

¹⁶ But rather, I fortified a portion in the work of this wall. And we bought no land. And all my servants came there together to work.

¹⁷ Moreover, there were at my table one hundred fifty of the Jews and rulers who came to us from among the heathen who are around us.