[:en]While the work was on going, there were poor people who borrowed money from nobles, and officials. They exact usury from them and confiscated their fields, and vineyard if they were unable to pay them. Their sons and daughters became their slaves. So the poor raised a great outcry against their Jewish brothers. When Nehemiah knew it, he urged the rich to stop exacting usury and return their fields, vineyard and houses. The people responded because Nehemiah himself set a good example to them. As a governor in the land of Judah, Nehemiah never ate the food allotted to him. He did not place a heavy burden on the people. He devoted himself to the work of the wall.[:]
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