Nehemiah 13:21

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Ezra 7:26

All who will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon them with all diligence, whether death, or corporal punishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.” Ezra Prepares for the Journey.

Nehemiah 10:32

When the local inhabitants bring in merchandise or any kind of grain for sale on the sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or on any other holy day. In the seventh year we will forgo the produce, and forgive every kind of debt.

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I perceived that people in Judah were treading the wine presses on the sabbath; that they were bringing in sheaves of grain, loading them on their donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs, and every other kind of load, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the sabbath day. I warned them to sell none of these provisions.

Nehemiah 13:20

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

1 Peter 2:14

or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the approval of those who do good.