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Nehemiah 13:20-22
New English Translation
Nehemiah 13:20-22
New English Translation
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,[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] 22 Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.
For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.
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- Nehemiah 13:21 tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Nehemiah 13:21 tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”
- 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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