Verse Comparison: Nehemiah 4:13
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Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set `there' the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.Amplified® Bible
So I set [armed men] behind the wall in places where it was least protected; I even thus used the people as families with their swords, spears, and bows.Contemporary English Version
and so I sent people to guard the wall at its lowest places and where there were still holes in it. I placed them according to families, and they stood guard with swords and spears and with bows and arrows.Darby English Version
I set in the lower places behind the wall in exposed places, I even set the people, according to their families, with their swords, their spears and their bows.Good News Bible
So I armed the people with swords, spears, and bows, and stationed them by clans behind the wall, wherever it was still unfinished.King James Version
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.New American Standard Bible
then I stationed {men} in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, the exposed places, and I stationed the people in families with their swords, spears and bows.New International Version
Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows.New King James Version
Therefore I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings; and I set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
then I stationed men in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, the exposed places, and I stationed the people in families with their swords, spears and bows.Revised Standard Version
So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.Young's Literal Translation
And I appoint at the lowest of the places, at the back of the wall, in the clear places, yea, I appoint the people, by their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
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