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|Nehemías 13:16|
Men from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath to the people of Judah.
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|Nehemías 13:17|
I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this wicked thing you are doing — desecrating the Sabbath day?
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|Nehemías 13:18|
Didn’t your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity upon us and upon this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath.”
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|Nehemías 13:19|
When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.
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|Nehemías 13:20|
Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem.
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|Nehemías 13:21|
But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath.
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|Nehemías 13:22|
Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this also, O my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.
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|Nehemías 13:23|
Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
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|Nehemías 13:24|
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah.
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|Nehemías 13:25|
I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God’s name and said: “You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.
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Sugerencias
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