Nehemiah 13:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:19

When it began to be dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the sabbath. And I set some of my servants over the gates, that no burden might be brought in on the sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:21

But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge before the wall? If you do so again I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the sabbath.