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Nehemiah 3:26

Tree of Life Version

and the Temple servants living on the Ophel made repairs up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.

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The first to settle on their property in their towns were Israelites, kohanim, Levites and the Temple servants.

He rebuilt the upper gate of the House of Adonai and did extensive building on the wall of Ophel.

Afterward he built an outer wall to the city of David west of Gihon in the valley, as far as the entrance to the Fish Gate, and encircling the Ophel; he also raised it up much higher. He stationed military officers in all the fortified cities of Judah.

But the Temple servants dwelt on the Ophel, with Ziha and Gishpa over the Temple servants.

They went over the Fountain Gate and continued up the stairs of the city of David at the ascent to the wall, and passed, above the house of David all the way to the Water Gate toward the east.

After him the men of Tekoa repaired another section from opposite the great projecting tower to the wall of the Ophel.

Then all the people were brought as a single body into the plaza that was before the Water Gate. They said to Ezra the scribe, “Bring out the Torah scroll of Moses that Adonai had commanded Israel.”

So the people went out and brought branches, and made sukkot for themselves, each on their own roof, in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the House of God, in the plaza before the Water Gate and in the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.

So he read from it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from first light until midday, in the presence of the men and women, and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the scroll of the Torah.

For the palace will be abandoned; the bustling city will be deserted; the citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, a delight of wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,




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