Nehemiah 13:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem once or twice.

²¹ And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the wall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that time they came no more on the sabbath.

²² I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and should come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.