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In those dayssaw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing insheaves, and ladingasses; as also wine,grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbathday: and I testified against them in the day wherein they soldvictuals.
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There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which broughtfish*, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
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Did not your fathers thus, and did not our Godbring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bringmorewrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
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And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be darkbefore the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servantsset I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbathday.
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Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will layhands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
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And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbathday.Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.