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Nehemiah 13:19-21
New English Translation

19 When the evening shadows began to fall on[a] the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered[b] the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned[c] some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day. 20 The traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice. 21 But I warned them and said,[d] “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!”[e] From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:19 tn Heb “the gates of Jerusalem grew dark.”
  2. Nehemiah 13:19 tn Heb “said” (so also in v. 22).
  3. Nehemiah 13:19 tn Heb “caused to stand.”
  4. Nehemiah 13:21 tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.
  5. Nehemiah 13:21 tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”
  6. 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.
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