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Nehemiah 4:21-23 English Standard Version (ESV)

21. So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.

22. I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.”

23. So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand.