19. I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, one far from one another.
20. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
21. So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.
22. Likewise at the same time said I to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the 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. Everyone took his weapon to the water.