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21 我们就这样作工;一半人紧握着枪,从黎明直到星宿出现的时候。 22 那时,我又对众人说:“各人和他的仆人都要在耶路撒冷城中过夜,这样他们可以在夜间作我们的守卫,日间工作。” 23 这样,我与我的兄弟、我的仆人和跟随我的人,都不脱衣服,各人带自己的兵器去打水(“各人带自己的兵器去打水”原文意思不明确,或译:“各人时常右手拿着自己的兵器”)。

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21 So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out. 22 At that time I also said to the people, “Have every man and his helper stay inside Jerusalem at night, so they can serve us as guards by night and as workers by day.” 23 Neither I nor my brothers nor my men nor the guards with me took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even when he went for water.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 4:23 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

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