Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 15:17

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.

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.

— Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 15:17 —

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.

¹⁹Remember me, O God, for good, in all that I have done to this people.