5 Now
our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children.
Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our
daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it,
for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
I also said to the people
at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem,
that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.” 23 So
neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed
me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand.