¹⁵ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and those who were left in the city [at the time it was captured], along with those who went out to the king of Babylon [during the siege] and the remnant of the multitude [the country’s working people].

¹⁶ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.