Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 23:17
Source: Septuagint
17And I strove with the free children of Judah, and said to them, What is this evil thing which ye do, and profane the Sabbath day?
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15In those days I saw in Judah men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and loading asses with both wine, and grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day:
16and I testified in the day of their sale. Also there dwelt in it men bringing fish, and selling every kind of merchandise to the children of Judah and in Jerusalem on the Sabbath.
— Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 23:17 —
18Did not your fathers thus, and our God brought upon them and upon us and upon this city all these evils? and do ye bring additional wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath?
19And it came to pass, when the gates were set up in Jerusalem, before the Sabbath, that I spoke, and they shut the gates; and I gave orders that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and I set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burdens on the Sabbath day.