Nehemiah

¹⁷Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon. ¹⁸Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the shofar was by me. ¹⁹I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. ²⁰Wherever you hear the sound of the shofar, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.” ²¹So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared. ²²Likewise at the same time said I to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.” ²³So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.