Nehemiah 13:21-23

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²¹ But I reproved and warned them, saying, Why do you lodge by the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you. Then they stopped coming on the Sabbath.

²² And I commanded the Levites to cleanse themselves and come and guard the gates to keep the Sabbath day holy. O my God, [earnestly] remember me concerning this also and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy and loving-kindness.

²³ In those days also I saw Jews who had married wives from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.