rsv Nehemiah:13:15-20 SEEK
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In those days I saw in Judah men treading wine presses on the sabbath ,
and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on asses ;
and also wine ,
grapes ,
figs ,
and all kinds of burdens ,
which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day ;
and I warned them on the day when they sold food .
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Men of Tyre also ,
who lived in the city ,
brought in fish and all kinds of wares and sold them on the sabbath to the people of Judah ,
and in Jerusalem .
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Then I remonstrated with the nobles of Judah and said to them , "
What is this evil thing which you are doing ,
profaning the sabbath day ?
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Did not your fathers act in this way ,
and did not our God bring all this evil on us and on this city ?
Yet you bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath ."
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When it began to be dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath ,
I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the sabbath .
And I set some of my servants over the gates ,
that no burden might be brought in on the sabbath day .
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Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice .