Nehemiah 3:38

7 translations of 93 that include the Old Testament

The Orthodox Jewish Bible - Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha - The Holy Bible

So we rebuilt HaChomah, and kol HaChomah was joined together unto half the height thereof, for HaAm had a mind to work.

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Croatian Bible

Tako smo gradili zid, koji je uskoro bio završen do pola visine. Narod je imao oduševljenja za rad.

French: Bible J.N. Darby

Mais nous avons rebâti la muraille, et toute la muraille fut reliée jusqu’à la moitié ; et le peuple avait le cœur au travail.

German Textbibel

Wir aber bauten an der Mauer, und die ganze Mauer ward geschlossen bis zur Hälfte ihrer Höhe, und das Volk war voll Eifer für die Arbeit.

Hebrew Masoretic OT

וַנִּבְנֶה֙ אֶת־הַ֣חֹומָ֔ה וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר כָּל־הַחֹומָ֖ה עַד־חֶצְיָ֑הּ וַיְהִ֧י לֵ֦ב לָעָ֖ם לַעֲשֹֽׂות׃ פ

Mashi Bible

Rhwanaciyûshûla okuyûbaka olugurhu lwîrhu, na olugurhu lwîrhu lwanacihumana lwoshi kuhika omu karhî kâlwo, bulya olubaga lwàli lujizire ogwo mukolo n’omurhima gwoshi.

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Hebrew OT (WLC)

וַנִּבְנֶה֙ אֶת־הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר כָּל־הַחוֹמָ֖ה עַד־חֶצְיָ֑הּ וַיְהִ֧י לֵ֦ב לָעָ֖ם לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ פ

Attribution

When was this written?

Traditions differ. Each position is shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Traditional: 430 BC–420 BC Nehemiah
The memoir is written in the first person.
Critical: 400 BC–300 BC The Chronicler
Same compilation as Ezra, of which it was anciently one book.

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Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (430 BC–300 BC).

1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
550 BC–330 BC The Persian empire founded Persia
Cyrus and his successors ruled from the Aegean to the Indus, the largest empire the world had yet seen.
500 BC–500 AD The Nazca lines South America
Vast figures drawn on the Peruvian desert, visible only from the surrounding hills.
484 BC–425 BC Herodotus writes his Histories Greece
The first sustained attempt to inquire into the causes of events rather than simply record them.
322 BC–185 BC The Mauryan empire India
The first empire to unite most of the Indian subcontinent.
300 BC Euclid's Elements Egypt
A geometry textbook still in use two thousand years later.
460 BC–370 BC Hippocratic medicine Greece
Medicine separated from religion, seeking natural causes for disease.

Nehemiah 3:38

The Orthodox Jewish Bible - Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha - The Holy Bible ☆

Croatian Bible ☆

French: Bible J.N. Darby ☆

German Textbibel ☆

Hebrew Masoretic OT ☆

Mashi Bible ☆

Hebrew OT (WLC) ☆