Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

2 Esdras 4:20-23 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

20. In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us: our God will fight for us.

21. And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears from the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.

22. At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his servant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the night, and by day, to work.

23. 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.