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1 Now
those who sealed
were: Nehemiah the
governor, the son
of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
8 Maaziah, Bilgai,
and Shemaiah. These were
the priests.
9 The Levites:
Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui
of the sons
of Henadad, Kadmiel;
10 and
their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah,
Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
13 Hodiah, Bani,
and Beninu.
14 The chiefs
of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu,
Bani,
15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai,
20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
27 Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.
28 The rest of
the people, the priests,
the Levites, the gatekeepers,
the singers, the temple servants,
and all those 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—
29 joined with
their brothers,
their nobles, and entered
into a curse and
into an oath,
to walk in God’s
law, which
was given by Moses
the servant of God,
and to observe
and do all
the commandments of
the LORD our Lord,
and his ordinances
and his statutes;
30 and
that we would
not give
our daughters to
the peoples of
the land, nor take
their daughters for
our sons;
31 and
if the peoples
of the land
bring wares or
any grain on
the Sabbath day to
sell, that we
would not buy
from them on
the Sabbath, or on
a holy day; and
that we
would forego the seventh
year crops and
the exaction of
every debt.
32 Also
we made ordinances
for ourselves, to
charge ourselves yearly
with the third
part of
a shekel
for the service
of the house of
our God:
33 for
the show bread,
for the continual meal offering,
for the continual burnt offering,
for the Sabbaths,
for the new moons,
for the set feasts,
for the holy
things, for the sin
offerings to make atonement
for Israel, and
for all the
work of the
house of our
God.
34 We,
the priests, the Levites,
and the people, cast lots
for the wood
offering, to bring
it into the
house of our God,
according to
our fathers’ houses,
at times
appointed year by year,
to burn on the
LORD our God’s altar,
as it is written
in the law;
35 and
to bring the first
fruits of our ground
and the first fruits
of all fruit
of all kinds of
trees, year by
year, to the
LORD’s house;
36 also
the firstborn of
our sons and of
our livestock, as
it is written in
the law, and
the firstborn of
our herds and of
our flocks, to bring
to the house
of our God,
to the priests
who minister in
the house of
our God;
37 and
that we
should bring the
first fruits of our dough, our wave
offerings, the fruit of all kinds
of trees, and
the new wine and
the oil, to the
priests, to the
rooms of the
house of our God;
and the tithes
of our ground to
the Levites; for
they, the Levites,
take the tithes
in all our farming villages.
38 The
priest, the descendent
of Aaron, shall be
with the Levites
when the Levites
take tithes. The
Levites shall
bring up the
tithe of the
tithes to the
house of our God,
to the rooms,
into the treasure
house.
39 For
the children
of Israel and the
children of Levi
shall bring
the wave offering
of the grain, of
the new wine, and
of the oil, to
the rooms where
the vessels of the
sanctuary are, and
the priests
who minister, with
the gatekeepers and
the singers. We will
not forsake the
house of our God.