Néhémie 5:18

Darby's French Translation

Or ce qui m'était apprêté pour un jour, c'était un boeuf, et six moutons choisis; on m'apprêtait aussi de la volaille, et, tous les dix jours, toutes sortes de vins en abondance; et avec cela, je n'ai point réclamé le pain du gouverneur, parce que le service pesait lourdement sur ce peuple.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et ce qu'on apprêtait chaque jour, était un bœuf et six moutons choisis, et de la volaille, et de dix en dix jours toutes sortes de vins en abondance. Et avec tout cela, je n'ai point demandé le pain qui était assigné au gouverneur; car le service pesait lourdement sur le peuple.

Louis Segond (1910)
On m'apprêtait chaque jour un boeuf, six moutons choisis, et des oiseaux; et tous les dix jours on préparait en abondance tout le vin nécessaire. Malgré cela, je n'ai point réclamé les revenus du gouverneur, parce que les travaux étaient à la charge de ce peuple.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et ce qu'on apprêtait chaque jour, était un bœuf, et six moutons choisis. On m'apprêtait aussi des volailles; et de dix en dix jours [on me présentait] de toute sorte de vin en abondance; et nonobstant tout cela, je n'ai point demandé le plat qui était assigné au Gouverneur; car c'eût été une rude servitude pour ce peuple.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Now that: 1 Kings 4:22, 1 Kings 4:23

one ox: This was food sufficient for more than two hundred men. Bp. Pococke says that the bey of Tunis had daily twelve sheep, with fish and fowls, soups, oranges, eggs, onions, boiled rice, etc., etc. His nobles dined with him; after they had done, the servants sat down; and when they had finished, the poor took what was left. Here the bey's twelve sheep are equal to Nehemiah's one ox and six choice sheep; and probably the mode of living between the two was nearly alike. It is still the practice in the East to calculate the expenses of the table, not by the money paid, but by the provisions consumed by the guests.

required: Nehemiah 5:14, Nehemiah 5:15

because the bondage: Psalms 37:21, Psalms 37:26

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 5:11 - they Isaiah 3:7 - neither bread 1 Thessalonians 2:9 - chargeable

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep,.... Or fat ones; of beef and mutton a considerable quantity, abundantly sufficient for his guests and servants, and shows what a good table he kept:

also fowls were prepared for me; what number is not said:

and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; the country afforded; that is, either once in ten days his stock of wine was renewed, or a more liberal entertainment was made, a banquet of wine, Esther 5:6,

yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor; the salary that used to be given him, but did this at his own expense, out of his own estate in Judea; or what he had got by his office as cupbearer to the king of Persia, the salary of which perhaps was continued:

because the bondage was heavy upon the people; the tribute of the king of Persia, and their labour and expense in building the walls of the city.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the far grander provision for Solomon’s table (see the marginal reference).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. One ox, and six choice sheep — This was food sufficient for more than two hundred men.

Once in ten days store of all sorts of wine — It is supposed that every tenth day they drank wine; at all other times they drank water; unless we suppose the meaning of the phrase to be, that his servants laid in a stock of wine every ten days. Though the Asiatics drank sparingly of wine, yet it is not very likely that, in a case such as that above, wine was tasted only thrice in each month.

Bishop Pococke mentions the manner in which the bey of Tunis lived. He had daily twelve sheep, with fish, fowls, soups, oranges, eggs, onions, boiled rice, c., c., His nobles dined with him after they had done, the servants sat down and, when they had finished, the poor took what was left. Here is no mention of a fat ox; but there were six sheep at the bey's table more than were at the table of Nehemiah: so the twelve sheep were equal to six sheep and one ox. Probably the mode of living between these two was nearly alike.