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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1 The document was ratified and sealed with the following names: The governor: Nehemiah son of Hacaliah, and also Zedekiah. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The following priests: Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Pashhur, Amariah, Malkijah, |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The following Levites: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui from the family of Henadad, Kadmiel, |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and their fellow Levites: Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The following leaders: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Malluch, Harim, and Baanah. The Vow of the People |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then the rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, Temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the pagan people of the land in order to obey the Law of God, together with their wives, sons, daughters, and all who were old enough to understand— |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29joined their leaders and bound themselves with an oath. They swore a curse on themselves if they failed to obey the Law of God as issued by his servant Moses. They solemnly promised to carefully follow all the commands, regulations, and decrees of the LORD our Lord: |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30“We promise not to let our daughters marry the pagan people of the land, and not to let our sons marry their daughters. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31“We also promise that if the people of the land should bring any merchandise or grain to be sold on the Sabbath or on any other holy day, we will refuse to buy it. Every seventh year we will let our land rest, and we will cancel all debts owed to us. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32“In addition, we promise to obey the command to pay the annual Temple tax of one-eighth of an ounce of silver for the care of the Temple of our God. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33This will provide for the Bread of the Presence; for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings; for the offerings on the Sabbaths, the new moon celebrations, and the annual festivals; for the holy offerings; and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel. It will provide for everything necessary for the work of the Temple of our God. |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34“We have cast sacred lots to determine when—at regular times each year—the families of the priests, Levites, and the common people should bring wood to God’s Temple to be burned on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the Law. |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35“We promise to bring the first part of every harvest to the LORD’s Temple year after year—whether it be a crop from the soil or from our fruit trees. |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36We agree to give God our oldest sons and the firstborn of all our herds and flocks, as prescribed in the Law. We will present them to the priests who minister in the Temple of our God. |
37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37We will store the produce in the storerooms of the Temple of our God. We will bring the best of our flour and other grain offerings, the best of our fruit, and the best of our new wine and olive oil. And we promise to bring to the Levites a tenth of everything our land produces, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns. |
38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38“A priest—a descendant of Aaron—will be with the Levites as they receive these tithes. And a tenth of all that is collected as tithes will be delivered by the Levites to the Temple of our God and placed in the storerooms. |
39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39The people and the Levites must bring these offerings of grain, new wine, and olive oil to the storerooms and place them in the sacred containers near the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers. “We promise together not to neglect the Temple of our God.” |
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