Nehemiah 13:15-22 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading donkeys; as also wine, grapes… "I tell our directors that if they compel conductors to break the fourth commandment they have no right to expect them to keep the eighth." That was the Hon. William E. Dodge's business way of putting to railroad companies the argument for Sabbath-keeping. Parallel Verses KJV: In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. |
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