Nehemiah 6:15
Good News Translation
After fifty-two days of work the entire wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul.

New Revised Standard Version
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

Contemporary English Version
On the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, the wall was completely rebuilt. It had taken 52 days.

New American Bible
The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul; the work had taken fifty-two days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fifty days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fifty days.

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Ezra 6:15 And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Daniel 9:25 Know thou, therefore, and take notice: that from the going forth of the word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ, the prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall be built again, and the walls, in straitness of times.

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Nehemiah 4:1,2 And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were building the wall he was angry: and being moved exceedingly he scoffed at the Jews. . . .

Context
Completion of the Wall
15But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fifty days.16And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all nations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down within themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of God.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:1
And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were building the wall he was angry: and being moved exceedingly he scoffed at the Jews.

Nehemiah 4:2
And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans: What are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will they sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?

Nehemiah 7:1
Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and numbered the porters and singing men, and Levites:

Nehemiah 6:14
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