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Nehemiah 4:21-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Nehemiah 4:21-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from break of dawn until the stars came out. 22 I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night inside Jerusalem, so 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 ever took off our clothes; each kept his weapon in his right hand.[a]
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- 4.23 Cn: Heb each his weapon the water
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