Nehemiah 5:15-17

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵ But the previous governors who were before me ^[a]laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so ^(A)because of my fear of God. ¹⁶ I also ^[b]applied myself to the work on this wall; we did not buy any land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work. ¹⁷ Moreover, ^(B)there were at my table 150 Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.