Nehemiah 13:15–19

¹⁵In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses ^eon the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, ^fwhich they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified ^gagainst them in the day wherein they sold victuals. ¹⁶There dwelt men of ^hTyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. ¹⁷Then ⁱI contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? ^18kDid not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath. ¹⁹And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem ^lbegan to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.