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22 I told everyone living outside the walls to move into Jerusalem so that their servants could go on guard duty as well as work during the day. 23 During this period none of us—I, nor my brothers, nor the servants, nor the guards who were with me—ever took off our clothes except for washing.[a] And we carried our weapons with us at all times.

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  1. Nehemiah 4:23 except for washing, or “even when we went for water,” or “not even at night.” The meaning of the Hebrew text is uncertain.

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