Nehemiah 4:21-23

Evangelical Heritage Version

²¹ So we continued to work with half of the people holding spears, from the crack of dawn until the stars came out. 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]