Rashi, on Neh 4:5

“Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.”

“And our adversaries said Nehemiah proceeds to tell this. They will not know, and they will not see So were our adversaries saying about us: “They will not know, and the Israelites will not recognize us until we come suddenly into their midst and kill them, and with this plot we will stop and curtail the building.””

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.