Moreover,from the daythat I was appointedto be their governorin the landof Judah,from the twentiethyearto the thirty-secondyearof KingArtaxerxes,[for] twelveyears,neitherI normy kinsmenhave eatenthe governor'sfood[allowance].
The wordsof Nehemiahthe sonof Hacaliah.Now it happenedin the monthChislev,[in] the twentiethyear,while I was in Susathe capitol,
But during allthis[time] I was not in Jerusalem,for in the thirty-secondyearof Artaxerxeskingof BabylonI had goneto the king.Aftersome time,however, I askedleave from the king,
And it cameabout in the monthNisan,in the twentiethyearof KingArtaxerxes,that wine[was] beforehim, and I tookup the wineand gaveit to the king.Now I had not beensadin his presence.
"Immediatelythe one who had receivedthe fivetalentswentand tradedwith them, and gainedfivemoretalents.
Whatthenis my reward?That, when I preach the gospel,I may offerthe gospelwithout charge,soas not to make full useof my rightin the gospel.
