Rashi, on Neh 6:15

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

“on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Ellul, in the twentieth year of King Darius, for in the twentieth year of Darius, Nehemiah went up from Babylon, and in that year he built the ruins of Jerusalem. after fifty-two days The construction of the wall was completed fifty-two days after they had started building it.”

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.