Neh 5:15 | JFB | STEP | 15. the former governors . . . had taken . . . bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver —The income of Eastern governors is paid partly in produce, partly in money. "Bread" means all sorts of provision. The forty shekels of silver per day would amount to a yearly salary of £1800 sterling.

Nehemiah 5:15

15. the former governors . . . had taken . . . bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver—The income of Eastern governors is paid partly in produce, partly in money. "Bread" means all sorts of provision. The forty shekels of silver per day would amount to a yearly salary of £1800 sterling.