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22 Also at that time I said to the people, “Let every man and his servant spend the night in Jerusalem. They will serve as a guard for us at night, and in the daytime they will work.”

23 Neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who were behind me—none of us took off our clothes. Each man had his weapon in his hand, even when getting a drink of water.[a]

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  1. Nehemiah 4:23 The Hebrew has this cryptic statement: a man, his weapon, the waters. Some suggest emending waters to in his right hand. The words in his hand are not in the Hebrew text.