Verse 17
Nehemiah 13:17
English Revised Version
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Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God (Elohim) bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וָ/אָרִ֕יבָ/ה אֵ֖ת חֹרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֑ה וָ/אֹמְרָ֣/ה לָ/הֶ֗ם מָֽה הַ/דָּבָ֨ר הָ/רָ֤ע הַ/זֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַתֶּ֣ם עֹשִׂ֔ים וּֽ/מְחַלְּלִ֖ים אֶת י֥וֹם הַ/שַּׁבָּֽת
English Translation
And I contended with the men of Judah, and I said to them, "What is this evil thing that you are doing and profaning the Sabbath day?"
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Chapter 13 Context
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because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them...
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And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed mult...
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Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God (E...
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had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense...
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But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of...
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and I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing...
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And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
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Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the hou...
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And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and th...
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And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Le...
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Remember me, O my God (Elohim), concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for...
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Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, a...
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and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, bu...
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