Verse 23
Nehemiah 4:23
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that followed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped himself when he was to be washed.
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Chapter 4 Context
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And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were building the wall he was angry: and bei...
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And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans: What are the silly Jews doing? Wi...
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Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said : Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over the...
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Hear thou our God (Elohim), for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give t...
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Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they ha...
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So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people...
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And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azoti...
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And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare...
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And we prayed to our God (Elohim), and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.
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And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very much, and w...
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And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we come in the midst of them, and kill...
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And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all th...
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I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, a...
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And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the magistrates, and to the rest of the co...
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And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that the thing had been told us, that God (Elohim) defea...
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And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their young men did the work, and half were...
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Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he di...
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For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded w...
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And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: The work is...
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In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us: our God (Eloh...
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And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears from the rising of the morning, till...
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At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his servant stay in the midst of Jerusale...
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Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that followed me, did not put off our cloth...