Douay Rheims Original ↷
Nehemiah 5 📜 📕 ↷
Nehemiah's Generosity
14 And from that day, wherein the king commended me to the Duke in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year till the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly allowance, that was due to the Dukes.📜💬📚
15 But the former Dukes, that had been before me, burdened the people, & took of them in bread, & wine, and money, every day forty sicles: yea & their officers oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.📜💬📚
16 Yea I builded rather in the work of the wall, and field I bought not, and all my servants were gathered together to the work.📜💬📚
17 The Jews also & the magistrates an hundred fifty men, and they that came to us out of the nations, that were round about us, were at the table.📜💬📚
18 And there was prepared for me day by day one oxe, six chosen rams, beside fowls, and within ten days diverse wines, and many other things did I give. Moreover also the yearly allowance of my dukedom I sought not, for the people was very much impoverished.📜💬📚
19 Remember me my God to good, according to all things which I have done to this people.📜💬📚
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