Nehemiah 4:15-17

Complete Jewish Bible

^15 (21) So we kept doing the work. Half of them held spears from daybreak until the stars appeared. ^16 (22) Also at that time I told the people, “Let everyone with a servant stay the night within Yerushalayim, so that at night they can be a guard for us, even as they work during the day.” ^17 (23) I, my kinsmen, my servants and my bodyguards never took off our clothes, and everyone who went to get water took his weapon.