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13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I[a] would be discredited.[b]

14 Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in light of these actions of theirs—also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who have been trying to scare me!

The Rebuilding of the Wall Is Finally Completed

15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul,[c] in just fifty-two days.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 6:13 tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).
  2. Nehemiah 6:13 tn Heb “would have a bad name.”
  3. Nehemiah 6:15 sn Elul was the sixth month, or August-September by modern reckoning.