The Exiles Return

7 When the wall had been rebuilt and I had the doors installed,^(A) the gatekeepers,^(B) singers, and Levites were appointed.

³ I said to them, “Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot, and let the doors be shut and securely fastened while the guards are on duty. Station the citizens of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some at their homes.”^(A)

²¹ This is what the Lord says: Watch yourselves; do not pick up a load and bring it in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.^{(A) 22} You must not carry a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day or do any work,^(B) but you must consecrate the Sabbath day, just as I commanded your ancestors.^(C)