I continued — Overseeing, directing, and encouraging the workmen, which was my whole business; and this at my own cost. Bought — Of our poor brethren, whose necessities gave abundant opportunity of enriching myself with good bargains.
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Nehemiah 5:16
16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.