Nechemyah 6:2-4

Orthodox Jewish Bible

² That Sanvalat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they were choshevim (the ones scheming) to do me ra’ah (harm).

³ And I sent malachim unto them, saying, I am doing a melachah gedolah, so that I cannot come down. Why should the melachah cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

⁴ Yet they sent unto me this message arbah pe’amim; and I answered them after the same manner.