Neh 13:15-20, Jer 17:21-22 | ESV | STEP | In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath , and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys , and also wine , grapes , figs , and all kinds of loads , which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day . And I warned them on the day when they sold food .

Nehemiah 13:15-20

15 In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses ^aon the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, ^bwhich they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And ^cI warned them on the day when they sold food. 16 Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! 17 ^dThen I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, ^eprofaning the Sabbath day? 18 ^fDid not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster ^{▼▼The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context} on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

19 As soon as it ^hbegan to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. 20 Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.

Jeremiah 17:21-22

21 Thus says the Lord: Take care for the sake of your lives, and ⁱdo not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. 22 And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath ^jor do any work, but ^kkeep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.