Nehemiah 1:1

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Nehemiah’s Prayer

1 These are the ·words [memoirs] of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah.

In the month of Kislev [^Clate autumn] in the twentieth year [^Cof the reign of King Artaxerxes I; 445 bc], I, Nehemiah, was in the ·capital city [or fortress; ^Cthe winter residence of Persian kings, separate from the city] of Susa.