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📚Now those who sealed it were Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hachaliah, and Zedekiah, 2 📚Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah 📖, 3 📚Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah, 4 📚Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, 5 📚Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, 6 📚Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, 7 📚Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, 8 📚Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah. These were the priests.9 📚And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel, 10 📚And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 11 📚Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah, 12 📚Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.
14 📚The chief of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani, 15 📚Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 16 📚Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur, 18 📚Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai, 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, 20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua, 22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub, 24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek, 25 📚Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, 26 and Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, 27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28 📚And 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 their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes,
10:29 Into a curse and oath means they promised in God’s name to obey God’s law and pronounced a curse on those who broke their oath. See Deut 27:14-26; 28:15; 2 Chron 15:12-15.⚜
30 📚and stated: “We will not give our daughters to the people of the land, or take their daughters for our sons.
31 📚“And if the people of the land bring goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy it from them on the Sabbath 📖 or on a holy day. And in the seventh year 📖 we will refrain from farming and from demanding payment for any debt.
32 📚“Also we will undertake the duty of contributing yearly a third of a shekel 📖 for the service of the house of our God, 33 📚for the Showbread 📖 and for the regular grain offering, and for the regular burnt offering of the Sabbaths, the new moons 📖 and the appointed feasts and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings 📖 to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
34 📚“And we will cast lots 📖 among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for bringing an offering of wood to the house of our God, according to our fathers’ households, at appointed times year after year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law.
35 📚“And we will all bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all the fruit of all the trees, year after year, to the house of the LORD, 36 📚and bring the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to the house of our God, to the priests who serve in the house of our God.
37 📚“And we will bring the first of our dough and our offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God. And we will bring the tithes from our land to the Levites, so that the Levites might have the tithes 📖 in all our farming communities. 38 📚And the priest, the son 📖 of Aaron, will be with the Levites, when the Levites receive the tithes, and the Levites will bring a tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms of the storehouse.
10:38 Num 18:26. The Levites who received tithes for their support also had to give tithes.⚜
39 📚For the children of Israel and the children of Levi will bring the offering of grain, of new wine, and of oil, to the rooms where the articles for the sanctuary are, and where the priests who serve, and the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. And we will not forsake the house of our God”.