¹⁵ In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses ^(A)on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, ^(B)which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them about the day on which they were selling provisions.

^31 (A)if the peoples of the land brought ^[a]wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the ^(B)seventh year’s produce and the ^(C)exacting^[b] of every debt.

²¹ Then I warned them, and said to them, “Why do you spend the night ^[a]around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you!” From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath.

^21 (A)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

²¹ Thus says the Lord: ^(A)“Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; ²² nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I ^(B)commanded your fathers.

¹³ Yet the house of Israel ^(A)rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they ^(B)despised My judgments, ^(C)‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; and they greatly ^(D)defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the ^(E)wilderness, to consume them.

²⁷ “But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then ^(A)I will kindle a fire in its gates, ^(B)and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be ^(C)quenched.” ’ ”