Nehemiah 13:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But 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 lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But I reproved and warned them, saying, Why do you lodge by the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you. Then they stopped coming on the Sabbath.

American Standard Version (1901)

Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

Common English Bible

But I warned them: “Why are you spending the night by the wall? If you do that again, I will lay hands on you!” At that point, they stopped coming on the Sabbath.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I contended with them, and I said to them: "Why are you remaining just beyond the wall? If you do this again, I will send hands upon you." And so, from that time, they no longer came on the Sabbath.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the wall? If you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that time they came no more on the sabbath.

Nehemiah 13:21 Cross References

Ezra 7:26

All who will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on them, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of their goods or for imprisonment.”

Nehemiah 10:32

We also lay on ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens that they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, and I warned them at that time against selling food.

Nehemiah 13:20

Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice.

1 Peter 2:14

or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.