Nechemyah 6:3-5

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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.

⁵ Then sent Sanvalat his aid unto me in like manner the fifth time with an unsealed iggeret in his hand;