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THE BUILDERS OF THE WALL
And El Yashib the great priest rises with his brothers the priests and they build the flock portal; they hallow it and stand its doors - hallow it even to the tower of Meah to the tower of Hanan El:
2 and at his hand the men of Yericho build: and at their hand: Zakkur the son of Imri builds;
3 and the fish portal, the sons of Senaah build - he who felled its beams and stood its doors its locks and its bars:
4 and at their hand: Meremoth the son of Uri Yah the son of Qos strengthens; and at their hand: Meshullam the son of Berech Yah, the son of Meshezab El strengthens; and at their hand: Sadoq the son of Baana strengthens;
5 and at their hand: the Teqoaiy strengthen; and their mighty put not their necks to the service of their Adonay;
6 and the old portal Yah Yada the son of Paseach and Meshullam the son of Besod Yah strengthen - they fell its beams and stand its doors and its locks and its bars;
7 and at their hand: Melat Yah the Giboniy strengthens - and Yadon the Meronothiy the men of Gibon and of Mispeh - to the throne of the governor this side the river;
8 and at his hand: Uzzi El the son of Harha Yah of the refiners strengthens; and at his hand: Hanan Yah the son of the perfumers strengthens - and they leave Yeru Shalem to the wide wall;
9 and at their hand: Repha Yah the son of Hur the governor of the half circuit of Yeru Shalem strengthens;
10 and at their hand: Yeda Yah the son of Harum Aph strengthens - even over against his house; and at his hand: Hattush the son of Hashabne Yah strengthens;
11 Malki Yah the son of Harim and Hashshub the son of Pachath Moab, strengthen the second measure and the tower of the furnaces;
12 and at his hand: Shallum the son of Lochesh the governor of the half circuit of Yeru Shalem - he and his daughters strengthen;
13 the valley portal Hanun and the settlers of Zanoach strengthen - they build it and stand its doors its locks and its bars - and a thousand cubits on the wall to the dunghill portal;
14 and the dunghill portal Malki Yah the son of Rechab the governor of the circuit of Beth Hak Kerem strengthens; - he builds it and stands its doors its locks and its bars;
15 and the portal of the fountain Shallun the son of Kol Hozeh, the governor of the circuit of Mispeh strengthens - he builds it and covers it and stands its doors, its locks and its bars and the wall of the pool of Shiloach by the garden of the sovereign; and to the steps that descend from the city of David;
16 after him: Nechem Yah the son of Az Buq, the governor of the half circuit of Beth Sur, strengthens to over against the tombs of David and to the pool that is worked and to the house of the mighty;
17 after him: the Leviym - Rechum the son of Bani strengthen; at his hand: Hashab Yah the governor of the half circuit of Qeilah in his circuit strengthens;
18 after him: their brothers - Bavay the son of Henadad, the governor of the half circuit of Qeilah strengthen;
19 and at his hand: Ezer the son of Yah Shua, the governor of Mispeh, strengthens a second measure over against the ascent to the armoury at the corner;
20 after him: Baruch the son of Zakkay kindles to strengthen the second measure from the corner to the portal of the house of El Yashib the great priest;
21 after him: Meremoth the son of Uri Yah the son of Qos strengthens a second measure, from the portal of the house of El Yashib even to the conclusion of the house of El Yashib;
22 and after him: the priests - the men of the environs strengthen;
23 after him: Ben Yamin and Hashshub strengthen over against their house; after him: Azar Yah the son of Maase Yah the son of Anan Yah strengthens by his house;
24 after him: Binnuy the son of Henadad strengthens a second measure - from the house of Azar Yah to the corner - and to the corner;
25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the corner and the tower which goes from the high house of the sovereign, by the court of the guard yard; after him: Pedah Yah the son of Parosh.
26 The Dedicates settle in Ophel, against the water portal toward the rising and the tower that goes out;
27 after them: the Teqoaiy strengthen a second measure over against the great tower that goes out even to the wall of Ophel;
28 from above the horse portal the priests strengthen - each man over against his house;
29 after them: Sadoq the son of Immer strengthens over against his house; after him: also Shema Yah the son of Shechan Yah the guard of the portal toward the rising strengthens;
30 after him: Hanan Yah the son of Shelem Yah and Hanun the sixth son of Salaph strengthen a second measure; after him: Meshullam the son of Berech Yah strengthens over against his chamber;
31 after him: Malki Yah the son of the refiner strengthens to the house of the Dedicates and of the merchants - over against the portal Miphkad and to the upper room of the corner;
32 and between the upper room of the corner to the flock portal the refiners and the merchants strengthen.