13. because he was a hireling – that I should be afraid, and do so, and shall sin, and so they could give me an evil name, to reproach me.
14. My Elohim, remember Toḇiyah and Sanballat, according to these works of theirs, and the prophetess No‛aḏyah and the rest of the prophets who would have made me afraid.
15. And the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16. And it came to be, when all our enemies heard, and all the nations around us saw, that they fell greatly in their own eyes, and knew that this work was done by our Elohim.
17. In those days the nobles of Yehuḏah also sent many letters to Toḇiyah, while those of Toḇiyah came to them.
18. For many in Yehuḏah were sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Sheḵanyah son of Araḥ, and his son Yehoḥanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Bereḵyah.
19. They were also speaking about his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Toḇiyah sent letters to frighten me.