Nehemiah 13:18-20

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁸ “Did not your fathers do the same, and our God brought all this plague upon us and upon this city? Yet you increase the wrath upon Israel in breaking the Sabbath!”

¹⁹ And when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded to shut the gates, and charged that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I set some of my servants at the gates, so that there would be no burden brought in on the Sabbath Day.

²⁰ So, the traders and merchants of all kinds of goods remained once or twice all night outside Jerusalem.