14. Also, from the day I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Yehuḏah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of Sovereign Artaḥshashta, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the governor’s food.
15. But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty sheqels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of Elohim.
16. And I also applied myself to the work on this wall. We did not buy any land. And all my servants were gathered there for the work.
17. And at my table were one hundred and fifty of the Yehuḏim and deputy rulers, besides those who came to us from the nations around us.