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Nehemiah 5:14-16
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Nehemiah 5:14-16
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
14 Also, in the twelve years after I was appointed to be their governor in Judah, from the twentieth to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, neither I nor my kin ate the food allowed to [me] the governor.
15 But the former governors lived at the expense of the people and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver [a large monthly official salary]; yes, even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not so because of my [reverent] fear of God.
16 I also held fast to the work on this wall; and we bought no land. And all my servants were gathered there for the work.
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