Nehemiah 6:3 - Easy To Read Version

³ So I sent messengers to them with this answer: “I am doing important work, so I can’t come down. I don’t want the work to stop just so I can come down and meet with you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave to come down to you?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

Common English Bible

³ so I sent messengers to tell them, “I’m doing important work, so I can’t come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to come down to you?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Therefore, I sent messengers to them, saying: "I am doing a great work, and I cannot descend, lest perhaps it may be neglected when I go out and descend to you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come and go down to you.

Nehemiah 6:3 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 4:13

So I put some of the people behind the lowest places along the wall. And I put them by the holes in the wall. I put families together, with their swords, spears, and bows.

Nehemiah 6:2

So Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come Nehemiah, let’s meet together. We can meet in the town of Kephirim on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to hurt me.

Nehemiah 6:4

Sanballat and Geshem sent the same message to me four times. And I sent back the same answer to them each time.

Proverbs 14:15

A fool will believe anything he hears. But a wise man thinks carefully about everything.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Every time you find work to do, do it the best you can. In the grave there is no work. There is no thinking, no knowledge, and there is no wisdom. And we are all going to that \{place of death\}.

Matthew 10:16

“Listen! I am sending you, and you will be like sheep among wolves. So be smart like snakes. But also be like doves and do nothing wrong.

Luke 14:30

They would say, ‘This man began to build, but he was not able to finish!’

John 9:4

While it is daytime, we must continue doing the work of the One that sent me. The night is coming. And no person can work at night.