None of us put off our clothes Neither by day nor by night, as the manner is when people go to rest, but they constantly kept themselves in readiness to fight, if any assault were made on the city. Saving that every one put them off for washing When they were to wash and cleanse themselves from some impurity, which might befall them or their garments.
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Nehemiah 4:23
23 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, saving that every one put them off for washing.