TSK · Nehemiah 13:15

“Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy.

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the LORD your God has commanded you.

The LORD sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. They warned the people, but they would not pay attention.

We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan.

But I warned them and said,“Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath.

He says:“Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God!

The LORD says,‘Be very careful if you value your lives! Do not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.

But you must obey me and set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. If you disobey, I will set the gates of Jerusalem on fire. It will burn down all the fortified dwellings in Jerusalem and no one will be able to put it out.’”

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations(the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.

“My people, how have I wronged you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy contained in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.