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21 But I warned them and said,[a] “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!”[b] From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:21 tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.
  2. Nehemiah 13:21 tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”
  3. Nehemiah 13:21 sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted.