Nehemiah 5:15

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1. KJV King James Version

   15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

2. NIV New International Version

   15 But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels*5:15 That is, about 1 pound or about 460 grams of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God I did not act like that.

3. ESV English Standard Version

   15 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration*5:15 Compare Vulgate; Hebrew took from them for food and wine after forty shekels*5:15 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, *ver. 9because of the fear of God.

4. NLT New Living Translation

   15 The former governors, in contrast, had laid heavy burdens on the people, demanding a daily ration of food and wine, besides forty pieces*5:15 Hebrew 40 shekels [1 pound or 456 grams]. of silver. Even their assistants took advantage of the people. But because I feared God, I did not act that way.

5. NASB New American Standard Bible 2020

   15 But the previous governors who were before me *5:15 Lit made heavylaid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of my fear of God.

6. CSB Christian Standard Bible

   15 The governors  * 5:15 Ezr 5:3,14; Hg 1:1 who preceded me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them food and wine as well as a pound  * 5:15 Lit 40 shekels of silver. Their subordinates also oppressed the people, but because of the fear of God, I didn’t do this.  * 5:15 Lv 25:36

7. DRA Douay-Rheims American 1899

   15 But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sides: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

8. MSG The Message

   14-16 From the time King Artaxerxes appointed me as their governor in the land of Judah—from the twentieth to the thirty-second year of his reign, twelve years—neither I nor my brothers used the governor’s food allowance. Governors who had preceded me had oppressed the people by taxing them forty shekels of silver (about a pound) a day for food and wine while their underlings bullied the people unmercifully. But out of fear of God I did none of that. I had work to do; I worked on this wall. All my men were on the job to do the work. We didn’t have time to line our own pockets.