Nehemiah 10
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1Those whose seals were on the document were
the governor Nehemiah#Neh 5:14; 8:9; 12:26 son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
2Seraiah,#Neh 12:1–7,11–21 Azariah, Jeremiah,
3Pashhur,#1Ch 9:12 Amariah, Malchijah,
4Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
6Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
8Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah.
These were the priests.
9The Levites#Neh 8:7; 9:4–5; 12:8–9 were
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, and Beninu.
14The heads of the people#Ezr 2:1–61; Neh 7:6–63 were
Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
16Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,#Ezr 8:6
17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
18Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
19Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
20Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
21Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
22Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
23Hoshea, Hananiah,#Neh 7:2 Hasshub,
24Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
26Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
27Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28The 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#Neh 8:2–3 and who has separated themselves from the surrounding peoples#Neh 9:2; 13:3 to obey the law of God — 29join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath#10:29 Lit and enter in a curse and in an oath#Ezr 10:5; Neh 5:12 to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses#Neh 8:1 and to obey carefully all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of the Lord our Lord.
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30We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons.#Ex 34:16; Neh 13:23
31When 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.#Neh 13:16 We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year#Ex 23:10–11; Lv 25:1–7 and will cancel every debt.#Dt 15:1–3
32We will impose the following commands on ourselves:
To give an eighth of an ounce of silver#10:32 Lit give one-third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:#Ex 30:11–16; Mt 17:24 33the bread displayed before the Lord,#10:33 Lit rows of bread#Lv 24:5–9 the daily grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbath and New Moon offerings,#Nm 10:10 the appointed festivals, the holy things, the sin offerings to atone for Israel,#Nm 28:2–29:39 and for all the work of the house of our God.
34We have cast lots#Lv 16:8; Neh 11:1 among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our ancestral families#10:34 Lit the house of our fathers at the appointed times each year. They are to bring the wood to our God’s house to burn on the altar of the Lord our God,#Lv 6:12–13; Neh 13:31 as it is written in the law.
35We will bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the Lord’s house year by year.#Lv 26:1–10; Nm 18:12–13 36We will also bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as prescribed by the law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God,#Ex 13:2,12–13 to the priests who serve in our God’s house. 37We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough#Lv 23:17; Nm 15:20–21; Ezk 44:30 to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain offerings, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and fresh oil.#Nm 18:12–13 A tenth of our land’s produce belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-tenth offering in all our agricultural towns.#Lv 27:30 38A priest from Aaron’s descendants is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth,#Nm 18:26 and the Levites are to take a tenth of this offering to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.#Neh 13:12–13 39For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and fresh oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept#Dt 12:6,11 and where the priests who minister are, along with the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.#Neh 13:10–11
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2 Esdras (Nehemias) 10
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1And the subscribers were Nehemias, Athersatha the son of Hacherlai, and Sedecias,
2Saraias, Azarias, Jeremias,
3Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,
4Hattus, Sebenia, Melluch,
5Harem, Merimuth, Obdias,
6Daniel, Genthon, Baruch,
7Mosollam, Abia, Miamin,
8Maazia, Belgia, Semeia: these were priests.
9And the Levites: Josue the son of Azanias, Bennui of the sons of Henadad, Cedmihel,
10And their brethren, Sebenia, Oduia, Celita, Phalaia, Hanan,
11Micha, Rohob, Hasebia,
12Zachur, Serebia, Sabania,
13Odaia, Bani, Baninu.
14The heads of the people: Pharos, Phahath Moab, Elam, Zethu, Bani,
15Bonni, Azgad, Bebai,
16Adonia, Begoai, Adin,
17Ater, Hezecia, Azur,
18Odaia, Hasum, Besai,
19Hareph, Anathoth, Nebai,
20Megphias, Mosollam, Hazir,
21Mesizabel, Sadoc, Jeddua,
22Pheltia, Hanan, Anaia,
23Osee, Hanania, Hasub,
24Alohes, Phalea, Sobec,
25Rehum, Hasebna, Maasia,
26Echaia, Hanan, Anan,
27Melluch, Haran, Baana.
28And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters.
29All that could understand promising for their brethren, with their chief men. And they came to promise and swear that they would walk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant of God: that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.
30And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons.
31And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any things for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy them of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every hand.
32And we made ordinances for ourselves, to give the third part of a side every year for the work of the house of our God:
33For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice, and for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offering: that atonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of our God.
34And we cast lots among the priests, and the Levites, and the people for the offering of wood, that it might be brought into the house of our God by the houses of our fathers at set times, from year to year: to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law of Moses.
35And that we would bring the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of all fruit of every tree, from year to year, in the house of our Lord.
36And the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our oxen, and of our sheep, to be offered in the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
37And that we would bring the first-fruits of our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil to the priests, to the storehouse of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our works out of all the cities.
38And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites in the tithes of the Levites; and the Levites shall offer the tithe of their tithes in the house of our God, to the storeroom into the treasure house.
39For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall carry to the treasury the first-fruits of corn, of wine, and of oil. And the sanctified vessels shall be there, and the priests, and the singing men, and the porters, and ministers. And we will not forsake the house of our God.
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