Nehemiah 4:23
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Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that followed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped himself when he was to be washed.

So neither I

Nehemiah 5:16 Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land, and all my servants were gathered together to the work.

Nehemiah 7:2 I commanded Hanani my brother, and Hananias ruler of the house of Jerusalem, (for he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared God above the rest,)

Judges 9:48 Went up into mount Selmon, he and all his people with him: and taking an axe, he cut down the bough of a tree, and laying it on his shoulder, and carrying it, he said to his companions: What you see me do, do ye out of hand.

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

saving that, etc.

Judges 5:11 Where the chariots were dashed together, and the army of the enemies was choked, there let the justices of the Lord be rehearsed, and his clemency towards the brave men of Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the gates, and obtained the sovereignty.

(The original of this obscure clause is ish shilcho hammayim, which is rendered by Montanus, vir missile suum aquas, 'a man his dart to the waters,' of which it is difficult to make sense. It is wholly omitted by the LXX.; and one of De Rossi's MSS. reads, meshallachah al hammayim, 'in order to send them to the water.')

Context
Discouragement Overcome
22At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his servant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the night, and by day, to work. 23Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that followed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped himself when he was to be washed.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:22
At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his servant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the night, and by day, to work.

Nehemiah 5:1
Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Lexicon
So neither I
אֲנִ֜י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 589: I

nor brothers
וְאַחַ֣י (wə·’a·ḥay)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )

nor my men
וּנְעָרַ֗י (ū·nə·‘ā·ray)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5288: A boy, lad, youth, retainer

nor the guards
אִ֖ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

with me
אַחֲרַ֔י (’a·ḥă·ray)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 310: The hind or following part

changed out of
פֹשְׁטִ֖ים (p̄ō·šə·ṭîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6584: To strip off, make a dash, raid

our clothes;
בְּגָדֵ֑ינוּ (bə·ḡā·ḏê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage

each carried his weapon,
שִׁלְח֥וֹ (šil·ḥōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7973: A missile of attack, spear, a shoot of growth, branch

[even to go] for water.
הַמָּֽיִם׃ (ham·mā·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen


Additional Translations
So neither I nor brothers nor my men nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one went with his weapon to the water.

And I was there, and the watchmen behind me, and there was not a man of us that put off his garments.

And neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our garments: every one had his weapon on his right side.

So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one went with his weapon to the water.

So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

So 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.

and there are none -- I and my brethren and my servants, the men of the guard who are after me -- there are none of us putting off our garments, each hath his vessel of water.
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