Nehemiah 13:20

New American Bible - revised edition

The merchants and sellers of various kinds of merchandise spent the night once or twice outside Jerusalem,

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:19

When the shadows were falling on the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I ordered the doors to be closed and prohibited their reopening until after the sabbath. I posted some of my own people at the gates so that no load might enter on the sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:21

but then I warned them: “Why do you spend the night alongside the wall? If you keep this up, I will beat you!” From that time on, they did not return on the sabbath.