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Nehemiah 10:28-32

Nehemiah 10:28-32 CSB

The rest of the people — the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with their wives, sons, and daughters, everyone who is able to understand  and who has separated themselves from the surrounding peoples  to obey the law of God —  join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath  , to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses  and to obey carefully all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of the Lord our Lord. We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons.  When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day.  We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year  and will cancel every debt.  We will impose the following commands on ourselves: To give an eighth of an ounce of silver  yearly for the service of the house of our God: