The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Nehemiah 13:15 (King James 2000 Bible)
In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; and also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them about the day in which they sold provisions.

 

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Nehemiah 13:16 (AKJV)
There dwelled men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

 

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Nehemiah 13:17 (NKJV)

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, by which you profane the Sabbath day?

 

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Nehemiah 13:18 (NKJV)

Did not your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

 

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Nehemiah 13:19 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And it came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the sabbath; and some of my servants set I over the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

 

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Nehemiah 13:20 (NKJV)

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

 

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Nehemiah 13:21 (NKJV)

Then I warned them, and said to them, “Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you!” From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath.

 

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Nehemiah 13:22 (ERV)
And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember unto me, O my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

 

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Nehemiah 13:23 (NKJV)

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

 

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Nehemiah 13:24 (NKJV)

And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people.

 

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Nehemiah 13:25 (KJV)
And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

 

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Nehemiah 13:26 (Jubilee Bible 2000)
Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, strange women caused even him to offend.

 

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Nehemiah 13:27 (WBT)
Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?

 

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Nehemiah 13:28 (ERV)
And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

 

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Nehemiah 13:29 (KJV)
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

 

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Nehemiah 13:30 (NASB)

Thus I purified them from everything foreign and appointed duties for the priests and the Levites, each in his task,

 

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Nehemiah 13:31 (NASB)

and I arranged for the supply of wood at appointed times and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

 

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Esther 1:1 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
NOW IT came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus--this is Ahasuerus who reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces--

 

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Esther 1:2 (NIV)

At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,

 

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Esther 1:3 (NIV)

and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces were present.