"You saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their shout at the Red Sea.

In those days I saw in Judah [people] treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps [of grain] and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing [it all] to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food.

Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.