1Now on the sealed documents were: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah;
2Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
3Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
4Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
6Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
8Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah — these were the priests.
9And the Levites: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel,
10and their brothers: Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
11Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
12Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
13Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.
14The heads of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
16Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
18Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
19Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
20Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
21Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
22Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
23Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
24Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
26Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
27Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28And the rest of the people — the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding —
29they joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in the law of God, which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to keep and to do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes.
30and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
31and that, as for the peoples of the land who bring wares and any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day; and that we would forgo the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.
32We also established for ourselves commandments to impose on ourselves a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:
33for the bread of the arrangement, and the regular grain offering, and the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, and the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
34We also cast lots — the priests, the Levites, and the people — concerning the offering of wood, to bring it to the house of our God, by our fathers’ houses, at appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law.
35And we would bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of Yahweh;
36and the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
37And the first of our dough, and our contributions, and the fruit of every tree, the new wine and the fresh oil, we would bring to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithe of our ground to the Levites — for it is the Levites who collect the tithe in all our farming towns.
38And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithe; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithe to the house of our God, to the chambers, to the storehouse.
39For to the chambers the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, new wine, and fresh oil; there are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the ministering priests, and the gatekeepers, and the singers. And we will not neglect the house of our God.
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