rsv Nehemiah:13:19-22
rsv@Nehemiah:13:19 @ 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.
rsv@Nehemiah:13:20 @ Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.
rsv@Nehemiah:13:21 @ But I warned them and said to them, "Why do you lodge before the wall? If you do so again I will lay hands on you." From that time on they did not come on the sabbath.
rsv@Nehemiah:13:22 @ And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of thy steadfast love.