Neh 4:21, 23 | ESV | STEP | So we labored at the work , and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out .

Nehemiah 4:21

21 So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.

Nehemiah 4:23

23 So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; ^aeach kept his weapon at his right hand. ^{▼▼Probable reading; Hebrew each his weapon the water}