20So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem once or twice.


In Context

17 And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day?

18 Did not our fathers do these things, and our God brought all this evil upon us, and upon this city? And you bring more wrath upon Israel by violating the sabbath.

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.

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

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.

22 I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and should come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Nehemiah 13:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:20Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of wares lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:20And the dealers and sellers of all kind of ware passed the night without Jerusalem once or twice.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of wares lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside of Jerusalem once or twice.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:20And they lodge — the merchants and sellers of all ware — at the outside of Jerusalem, once or twice,