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Nehemiah 13:15

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In those days I saw in Judah some treading winepresses on the Sabbath or hauling loads of grain or loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all manner of burdens in order to bring them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So, during the day while they were selling the food goods, I warned them.

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And God sent prophets to return them to the Lord. These warned the people, but they would not listen.

If the people of the land bring merchandise or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also renounce the seventh year harvest and the full payment of every debt.

We also establish for ourselves the ordinance to collect from ourselves annually one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

Men of Tyre also stayed there, having hauled in fish and all kinds of merchandise, and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

So I warned them and said to them, “Why do you spend the night next to the wall? If you do so again, I will send you away by force.” From that time on they stopped coming on the Sabbath.

“You warned them in order to restore them again to Your law, but they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances (which would enable a man to live, if he would do them), stubbornly turning away and becoming belligerent so that they would not hear.

Will you trust him to bring home your grain and gather it into your barn?

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Therefore the Israelites must keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at the time of plowing and harvest you must rest.

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

If because of the Sabbath you turn away your foot from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

It shall come to pass, if you diligently listen to Me, says the Lord, to bring in no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but sanctify the Sabbath day to do no work in it,

But if you will not listen to Me to sanctify the Sabbath day and not to bear a load, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in the gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and it will not be quenched.

“The Lord has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Do not go into Egypt! Know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which if a man does them, he shall live. And My Sabbaths they greatly polluted. Then I said I would pour out My fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them.

saying, “When will the New Moon be over, so that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may open the wheat sales, making the ephah too small, and the shekel too heavy, cheating with dishonest scales,

“My people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Answer Me!

With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”

testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

I testify again to every man who is circumcised that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

Therefore this I say and testify in the Lord, that from now on you walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,

If you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, then I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

and that no man take advantage of and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, as we also have forewarned you and testified.




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