Nehemiah 13:19-21

Common English Bible

¹⁹ So when it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I gave orders that the doors should be shut. I also ordered that they shouldn’t be reopened until after the Sabbath. To make sure that no load would come into the city^[a] on the Sabbath, I stationed some of my own men at the gates. ²⁰ Once or twice the traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem. ²¹ But I warned them: “Why are you spending the night by the wall? If you do that again, I will lay hands on you!” At that point, they stopped coming on the Sabbath.