工程竣工

15 以禄月[a]二十五日城墙竣工,前后用了五十二天。

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  1. 6:15 以禄月”即希伯来历的六月,阳历是八月中旬到九月中旬。

15 Conclusion of the Work. The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul.[a] It was completed in fifty-two days.

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  1. Nehemiah 6:15 Elul: September–October. Fifty-two days: the work was certainly carried out very energetically by all the people, but we must remember that the destruction had not been total and that the rebuilding had not begun with Nehemiah (see the decree of Artaxerxes in Ezr 4:17-22).

15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.

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