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.