Nehemiah 4:21-22

4:21 So we worked on, ¹  with half ²  holding spears, from dawn till dusk. ³  4:22 At that time I instructed ⁴  the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day.

[4:21]  ¹ tn Heb “and we were doing the work.”

[4:21]  ² tn Heb “half of them.”

[4:21]  ³ tn Heb “from the coming up of the dawn till the coming forth of the stars.”

[4:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “said [to].”