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Nehemiah 3:26

New American Bible - revised edition

to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east, and the projecting tower.

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The first to settle again in their cities and dwell there were certain Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants. Jerusalemites.

It was he who built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s house and did much construction on the wall of Ophel.

Afterward he built an outer wall for the City of David to the west of Gihon in the valley, extending to the Fish Gate and encircling Ophel; he built it very high. He stationed army officers in all the fortified cities of Judah.

Malluch, Harim, Baanah. Provisions of the Pact.

The temple servants lived on Ophel. Ziha and Gishpa were in charge of the temple servants.

At the Fountain Gate they went straight up by the steps of the City of David and continued along the top of the wall above the house of David until they came to the Water Gate on the east.

After him, the Tekoites repaired the adjoining sector opposite the great projecting tower, to the wall of Ophel.

Now when the seventh month came, the whole people gathered as one in the square in front of the Water Gate, and they called upon Ezra the scribe to bring forth the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had commanded for Israel.

The people went out and brought in branches with which they made booths for themselves, on the roof of their houses, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares of the Water Gate and the Gate of Ephraim.

In the square in front of the Water Gate, Ezra read out of the book from daybreak till midday, in the presence of the men, the women, and those children old enough to understand; and all the people listened attentively to the book of the law.

The castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted; Citadel and tower will become wasteland forever, the joy of wild donkeys, the pasture of flocks;




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