Nehemiah 6:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

³ Therefore, I sent messengers to them, saying, “I have a great work to do, and I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”

⁴ Still, they sent to me four times in the same way. And I answered them in the same way.

⁵ Then Sanballat sent his servant to me as before for the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand,