Nehemiah 5:14-16

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁴ And from the time that the king gave me charge to be governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes (twelve years), I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

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.