BRAGADAYJAH 1213

BRAGADAYJAH 1213
Sabbath of Rest Restored
Then Nehemiah saw some treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and laden asses, and also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, and he testified against them in the day when they sold victuals. There were also living there men of Tyre, also those who brought fish and all manner of ware, and sold on the Sabbath unto the children of Judah in Jerusalem. Then Nehemiah challenged the nobles of Judah, and asked them what evil thing they were doing, in profaning the Sabbath day. He asked them, “Did not your fathers do the same thing, and did God not bring all this evil upon us and upon this city?” “And now you bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”  And it came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, Nehemiah commanded that the gates be shut and ordered that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath.  And some of his servants set him at the gate that there should no burden be brought on the Sabbath day. So the servants and sellers of all the wares lodged within Jerusalem once or twice. Then Nehemiah again testified against them and asked them why they were lodging against the wall. “Should you do so again I shall have you arrested,” he warned them. So from that time forth they came no more on the Sabbath.  So Nehemiah commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should keep the gates to sanctify the Sabbath day.

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