So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
KJV
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4 additional translationsASV
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifthdayofthe monthElul, in fifty and two days.
WEB
So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
YLT
And the wall is completed in the twenty and fifth of Elul, on the fifty and second day;
DBT
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.
- Author
- Nehemiah (chs. 1–7, 11–13 largely first-person memoir); Ezra-material probably compiled alongside
- Date
- Events 445–432 BC; final compilation late-5th century BC