Nehemiah 6:3 - Y'all Version Bible

³ I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to y’all?”

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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."

Nehemiah 6:3 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 4:13

Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Nehemiah 6:2

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

Nehemiah 6:4

They sent to me four times like this, and I answered them the same way.

Proverbs 14:15

A simple person believes everything, but the prudent one carefully considers their ways.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Matthew 10:16

“Look, I am sending y’all out as sheep among wolves. Therefore, y’all must be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Luke 14:30

saying, ‘This human began to build but wasn’t able to finish.’

John 9:4

I must work the works of ʜɪᴍ who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.