Nehemiah 4:21
World English Bible (WEB)
So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.
In context
19 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread out, and we are separated on the wall, 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 I said 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 took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.
Nehemiah 4:21 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.
- KJV King James Version
- So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.
- ASV American Standard Version
- So we wrought in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And we are working in the business, and half of them are keeping hold of the spears, from the going up of the dawn till the coming forth of the stars.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And we laboured in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the dawn till the stars appeared.
- WBS Webster Bible
- So we labored in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.