Nehemiah 13:18-20

New American Standard Bible 1995

^18 (A)Did not your fathers do the same, so that our God brought on us and on this city all this trouble? Yet you are adding to the wrath on Israel by profaning the sabbath.”

^19 (B)It came about that just as it grew dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut ^[a]and that they should not open them until after the sabbath. Then I stationed some of my servants at the gates so that no load would enter on the sabbath day. ²⁰ Once or twice the traders and merchants of every kind of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem.