<t /><p class="bodytext">So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in just fifty-two days.

For they were under royal orders<n id="1" /> which determined their activity day by day.<n id="2" />p>

So I registered a complaint with the nobles of Judah, saying to them, &#8220;What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?

Ezra<n id="1" /> read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last.<n id="2" /> They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly<n id="3" /> as was required.<n id="4" />p>

So in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, all Israel was contributing the portions for the singers and gatekeepers, according to the daily need.<n id="1" /> They also set aside<n id="2" /> the portion for the Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.p>

Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.p> <p class="bodytext">For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.p>