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Nehemiah 4:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

On at least ten different occasions, the Jews living near our enemies warned us against attacks from every side,

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Isn't ten times enough for you to accuse me? Aren't you ashamed?

I swear that not one of these Israelites will enter the land I promised to give their ancestors. These people have seen my power in Egypt and in the desert, but they will never see Canaan. They have disobeyed and tested me too many times.

I had to work 14 of these 20 long years to earn your two daughters and another 6 years to buy your sheep and goats. During that time you kept changing my wages.

and that he keeps cheating me by changing my wages time after time. But God has protected me.

Our enemies were saying, “Before those Jews know what has happened, we will sneak up and kill them and put an end to their work.”

and so I sent people to guard the wall at its lowest places and where there were still holes in it. I placed them according to families, and they stood guard with swords and spears and with bows and arrows.

From then on, whenever the king asked for advice, he found their wisdom was ten times better than that of any of his other advisors and magicians.




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