Nehemiah 4:23 (KJV)

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So neither I nor my brethren nor my servants nor the men of the guard which followed me none of us put off our clothes saving that every one put them off for washing

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So neither I. Ne 5:16 Ne 7:2 Re 11:3 1Co 15:10

saving that, etc. or, every one went with his weapon forwater. Re 4:11

The original of this obscure clause is {ish shilcho hammayim,} which is rendered by Montanus, {vir missile suum aquas,} "a man his dart to the waters," of which it is difficult to make sense. It is wholly omitted by the LXX.; and one of De Rossi's MSS. reads, {meshallachah âl hammayim,} "in order to send them to the water."

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