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I ^(C1)also shook out the ^(F1)front of my garment and said, "So may God shake out every person from his house and from his possessions who does not keep this ^(F2)promise; just so may he be shaken out and emptied." And ^(C2)all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised the LORD. Then the people acted in accordance with this ^(F2)promise.

Furthermore, since the day that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from ^(C1)the twentieth year to the ^(C2)thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve years, neither I nor my kinsmen have eaten the governor's food allowance.

But the previous governors who were before me ^(F1)laid 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 ^(C1)because of my fear of God.