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


In Context

17 And I strive with the freemen of Judah, and say to them, 'What is this evil thing that ye are doing, and polluting the sabbath-day?

18 Thus did not your fathers do? and our God bringeth in on us all this evil, and on this city, and ye are adding fierceness on Israel, to pollute the sabbath.'

19 And it cometh to pass, when the gates of Jerusalem have been dark before the sabbath, that I speak, and the doors are shut, and I say, that they do not open them till after the sabbath; and of my servants I have stationed at the gates; there doth not come in a burden on the sabbath-day.

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

21 and I testify against them, and say unto them, 'Wherefore are ye lodging over-against the wall? if ye repeat it, a hand I put forth upon you;' from that time they have not come in on the sabbath.

22 And I say to the Levites, that they be cleansed, and, coming in, keeping the gates, to sanctify the sabbath-day. Also, this, remember for me, O my God, and have pity on me, according to the abundance of Thy kindness.

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:20So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed 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.