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# Hear, our God, ... for they have provoked the builders to anger. So
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Here Nehemiah is praying to God. This can be stated clearly and written with quotation marks. Alternate translation: "Then I prayed, 'Hear, our God, ... for they have provoked the builders to anger.' So" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# So we built the wall
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"So we rebuilt the wall"
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# all the wall was joined together to half its height
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "we joined the wall together and it was half its total height" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# half its height
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"Half" means one part out of two equal parts. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-fraction]])
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