Nehemiah 6:3-5

Good News Translation

³ I sent messengers to say to them, “I am doing important work and can't go down there. I am not going to let the work stop just to go and see you.”

⁴ They sent me the same message four times, and each time I sent them the same reply.

⁵ Then Sanballat sent one of his servants to me with a fifth message, this one in the form of an unsealed letter.^[a]