Nehemiah 13:17
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
In context
15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.
16 Additionally, men of Tyre who lived there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.
17 Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
18 Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”
19 When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
Nehemiah 13:17 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
- KJV King James Version
- Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
- WEB World English Bible
- Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
- ASV American Standard Version
- Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 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?
- DBY Darby Translation
- And I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this which ye do, profaning the sabbath day?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?