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Chapter 3

List of Workers. [a](A)Eliashib the high priest and his priestly kinsmen took up the task of rebuilding the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, then continued the rebuilding to the Tower of the Hundred, the Tower of Hananel.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:1–32 The construction work on the gates and walls of the city is described in counterclockwise direction, beginning and ending at the Sheep Gate (to the north of the Temple). The exact locations of many of the topographical points mentioned are uncertain.

Builders of the Wall

Eliashib(A) the high priest and his fellow priests went to work and rebuilt(B) the Sheep Gate.(C) They dedicated it and set its doors in place, building as far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicated, and as far as the Tower of Hananel.(D)

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32 Between the upper chamber of the Angle and the Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants carried out the work of repair.

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32 and between the room above the corner and the Sheep Gate(A) the goldsmiths and merchants made repairs.

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39 then past the Ephraim Gate to the Mishneh Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Hundred Tower, as far as the Sheep Gate. They came to a halt at the Prison Gate.

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39 over the Gate of Ephraim,(A) the Jeshanah[a] Gate,(B) the Fish Gate,(C) the Tower of Hananel(D) and the Tower of the Hundred,(E) as far as the Sheep Gate.(F) At the Gate of the Guard they stopped.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 12:39 Or Old