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(×”×’Ö¼×™× ×©×¢×¨, sha‛ar ha-gay', “Gate of the Gaiâ€): Is placed () between the “tower of the furnaces†and the “dung gateâ€; from here Nehemiah () set out on his ride down the “Gai†(Hinnom) to Siloam, and, too (, ), from here the Levites commenced their compass of the city in two directions. It must have been an ancient gate, for Uzziah added towers to it (). It was probably near the Southwest corner of the city and near to, if not identical with, the gate found by Bliss near (now in) the Protestant Cemetery. See JERUSALEM, VI, 13.