Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw in Juda some treading the presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and lading asses with wine, and grapes, and figs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. And I charged them that they should sell on a day on which it was lawful to sell.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

In those days saw I in Judah some treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

In Context

14Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my kindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his ceremonies.

16Some Tyrians also dwelt there, who brought fish, and all manner of wares: and they sold them on the sabbaths to the children of Juda in Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:8Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.

Exodus 31:16Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

Exodus 35:2Six days you shall do work: the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath, and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 5:12Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

2 Chronicles 24:19And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.

Nehemiah 10:31And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any things for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy them of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every hand.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 13:11-15

Abuses Rectified. ( b. c. 434.) 10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field. 11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. 12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries. 13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the… Read the whole commentary →

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