Nehemiah 13:19-21

New American Standard Bible

¹⁹ And ^(A)it came about that just as it became dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered that the doors be shut, ^[a]and that they were not to open them until after the Sabbath. Then I stationed some of my servants at the gates so that no load would enter on the Sabbath day. ²⁰ Once or twice the traders and merchants of every kind of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem. ²¹ Then ^(B)I warned them and said to them, “Why do you spend the night in front of the wall? If you do so again, I will ^[b]use force against you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.