◄ Nehemiah 13:20 ►
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Good News Translation
Once or twice merchants who sold all kinds of goods spent Friday night outside the city walls.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice.

Contemporary English Version
Once or twice some merchants spent the night outside Jerusalem with their goods.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem, once or twice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem, once or twice.

Context
The Sabbath Restored
…19And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at rest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I commanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens on the sabbath day. 20So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem, once or twice.21And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the wall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that time they came no more on the sabbath.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 13:19
And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at rest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I commanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens on the sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:21
And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the wall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that time they came no more on the sabbath.

Nehemiah 13:19
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