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32 The other goldsmiths and merchants repaired the wall from that corner to the Sheep Gate.

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Rebuilding the Wall of Jerusalem

Then Eliashib the high priest and the other priests started to rebuild at the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and set up its doors, building the wall as far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicated, and the Tower of Hananel.

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Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda,[a] with five covered porches.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:2 Other manuscripts read Beth-zatha; still others read Bethsaida.

39 then past the Ephraim Gate to the Old City Gate,[a] past the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel, and on to the Tower of the Hundred. Then we continued on to the Sheep Gate and stopped at the Guard Gate.

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  1. 12:39 Or the Mishneh Gate, or the Jeshanah Gate.

31 Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired the wall as far as the housing for the Temple servants and merchants, across from the Inspection Gate. Then he continued as far as the upper room at the corner.

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Next was Uzziel son of Harhaiah, a goldsmith by trade, who also worked on the wall. Beyond him was Hananiah, a manufacturer of perfumes. They left out a section of Jerusalem as they built the Broad Wall.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:8 Or They fortified Jerusalem up to the Broad Wall.

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