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Nehemiah 5:15-17
International Standard Version
Nehemiah 5:15-17
International Standard Version
15 Nevertheless, the former governors before me placed a heavy burden on the people. They received food and wine, plus a tax of[a] 40 shekels[b] of silver. Even their young men took advantage of the people, but I never did so because I feared God.
16 Also, as I continued to work on the wall, we purchased no land, and all of my young men were employed in the work. 17 I fed 150 Jews and officials every day, not counting those who came from the nations around us.
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- Nehemiah 5:15 The Heb. lacks a tax of
- Nehemiah 5:15 I.e. about a pound; a shekel weighed about 0.4 ounces
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