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I was angry with the counselors and said to them, "Why is the House of God abandoned?" Then I gathered together the Levites and the singers, and sent them back to work according to their respective duties. (Nehemiah 13, 11)
With this, all the Jews turned over to the storehouses the tenth part of their wheat, wine and oil. (Nehemiah 13, 12)
I entrusted the administration of the storehouses to the priest Shelemiah, to the teacher of the Law Zadok, to the Levite Pedaiah, and to Hanan, son of Zaccur, as assistant. I appointed them since they were regarded as responsible men. Their work consisted in distributing the food to their brothers. (Nehemiah 13, 13)
My God, remember the things I have done. Do not forget the good works I did for your House and its ceremonies. (Nehemiah 13, 14)
In those days, I found men of Judah working in the winepress on the sabbath. Others took sheaves of wheat and loaded them on their asses together with wine, grapes, figs and every kind of produce they wanted to bring into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. I reprimanded them as they were selling their produce. (Nehemiah 13, 15)
So I reprimanded the leaders of Judah, saying to them, "You have done great evil by not respecting the sabbath day. (Nehemiah 13, 17)
When your fathers did not observe the sabbath, our God brought all those misfortunes on us and on this city. You increase the wrath of God against Israel by not respecting his sabbaths." (Nehemiah 13, 18)
So I ordered that as the shadows were falling on the gates of Jerusalem in the evening before the sabbath, the gates were to be closed and not to be opened until after the sabbath was over. Moreover, I also stationed some of my men by the gates so that no goods would be brought in on the sabbath day. (Nehemiah 13, 19)
I also ordered the Levites to purify themselves and to come and guard the gates in order to sanctify the sabbath. For this, too, remember me, my God, and have pity on me according to your great mercy. (Nehemiah 13, 22)
I also sent away from my side one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, who was the son-in-law of Sanballat, the Horonite. (Nehemiah 13, 28)
Remember this people, my God, for they defiled the priesthood and your covenant with the priests and Levites. (Nehemiah 13, 29)
So I purified them from everything foreign. And I established regulations for the priests and the Levites, defining the tasks of everyone. (Nehemiah 13, 30)
