Nechemyah 4:21-23

Orthodox Jewish Bible

^21 (4:15) So we labored in the melachah, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn till the kokhavim appeared.

^22 (4:16) Likewise at the same time said I unto HaAm, Let every one with his servant lodge within Yerushalayim, that in halailah they may be a mishmar (guard) to us, and at hayom a melachah (workman).

^23 (4:17) So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my men, nor the anshei hamishmar (the men of the guard) which followed me, none of us put off our clothes; every one carried his weapon, even when he went for water.