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When I heard their complaints and these words I was very angry. (Nehemiah 5, 6)
I said to them, 'To the best of our power, we have redeemed our brother Jews who were forced to sell themselves to foreigners, and now you in turn are selling your brothers, for them to be bought back by us!' They were silent and could find nothing to say. (Nehemiah 5, 8)
'We shall make restitution,' they replied, 'we shall claim nothing more from them; we shall do as you say.' Summoning the priests, I then made them swear to do as they had promised. (Nehemiah 5, 12)
What is more, from the time when the king appointed me to be their governor in Judah, from the twentieth to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ever levied the governor's subsistence allowance, (Nehemiah 5, 14)
whereas the former governors, my predecessors, had been a burden on the people, from whom they took forty silver shekels a day for food and wine, while their attendants oppressed the people too. But I, fearing God, never did this. (Nehemiah 5, 15)
Also, not acquiring any land, I concentrated on the work of this wall and all my attendants joined in the work together, too. (Nehemiah 5, 16)
Furthermore, magistrates and officials to the number of a hundred and fifty ate at my table, not to mention those who came to us from the surrounding nations. (Nehemiah 5, 17)
Every day, one ox, six fine sheep, as well as poultry, were prepared for me; every ten days, skins of wine were brought in bulk. But even so, I never claimed the governor's subsistence allowance, since the people already had burden enough to bear. (Nehemiah 5, 18)
To my credit, my God, remember all I have done for this people. (Nehemiah 5, 19)
When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and our other enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that not a single gap was left -- though at that time I had not fixed the doors to the gates- (Nehemiah 6, 1)
So I sent messengers to them to say, 'I am engaged in a great undertaking, so I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?' (Nehemiah 6, 3)
To this I sent him the following reply, 'As regards what you say, nothing of the sort has occurred; it is a figment of your own imagination.' (Nehemiah 6, 8)
