²¹ This is what the Lord says:

Be careful to obey these rules if you want to continue to live! On a Sabbath day, do not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem. ²² Do not carry any loads out of your houses. Do not do any work on a Sabbath day. You must keep the Sabbath day as a special day for me. That is what I commanded your ancestors to do.^{[a] 23} But they did not listen to me and they did not obey me. They refused to accept the rules that I gave to them. When I warned them, they would not change.”