Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 15:16
Source: Septuagint
16Also in the work of the wall I treated them not with rigor, I bought not land: and all that were gathered together came thither to the work.
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14From the day that he charged me to be their ruler in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, twelve years, I and my brethren ate not provision extorted from them.
15But as for the former acts of extortion wherein those who were before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachmas for bread and wine; and the very outcasts of them exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.
— Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 15:16 —
17And the Jews, to the number of a hundred and fifty men, besides those coming to us from the nations round about, were at my table.
18And there came to me for one day one calf, and I had six choice sheep and a goat; and every ten days wine in abundance of all sorts: yet with these I required not the bread of extortion, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.