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Nehemiah 4:20-22
New English Translation
Nehemiah 4:20-22
New English Translation
20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, gather there with us. Our God will fight for us!”
21 So we worked on,[a] with half[b] holding spears, from dawn till dusk.[c] 22 At that time I instructed[d] the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day.”
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- Nehemiah 4:21 tn Heb “and we were doing the work.”
- Nehemiah 4:21 tn Heb “half of them.”
- Nehemiah 4:21 tn Heb “from the coming up of the dawn till the coming forth of the stars.”
- Nehemiah 4:22 tn Heb “said [to].”
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