And these [were] the requisite supplies for Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of fine pounded meal,

and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.

From 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, neither I nor my brothers ate the [provisions] extorted from them.

But as for the former acts of extortion in which [those who were] before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty shekels 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.

The sinner borrows, and will not pay again; but the righteous has compassion, and gives.

He is merciful, and lends continually; and his seed shall be blessed.