Night — Concealing both his intentions as long as he could, knowing that the life of his business lay in secrecy and expedition. Beast — To prevent noise.
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Nehemiah 2:12
12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.