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Commentary for Nehemiah 6:15

וַתִּשְׁלַם֙ הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה בְּעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה לֶאֱל֑וּל לַחֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנַ֖יִם יֽוֹם׃ (פ)

So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

Rashi on Nehemiah

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.
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Rashi on Nehemiah

after fifty-two days The construction of the wall was completed fifty-two days after they had started building it.
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