¹³ I ^(A)also shook out the ^[a]front of my garment and said, “Thus may God shake out every man from his house and from his possessions who does not establish this word; even thus may he be shaken out and emptied.” And ^(B)all the assembly said, “Amen!” And they praised Yahweh. Then the people did according to this word.

Nehemiah as Governor

¹⁴ Moreover, from the day that I was put in command to be their governor in the land of Judah, from ^(C)the twentieth year to the ^(D)thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve years, neither I nor my ^[b]relatives have eaten the governor’s food allowance. ¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me ^[c]laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty ^[d]shekels of silver; even their young men exerted their power over the people. But I did not do so ^(E)because of the fear of God.