THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Second Book of Esdras (Author Nehemias or Esdras or both)

5:18And there was prepared for me day by day one ox, and six choice rams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines, and many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as governor: for the people were very much impoverished.



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