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, Shemaiah; these were the priests. 9 The Levites:
namely, 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, Beninu. 14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh,
Pahath-moab, 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 and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, 27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the
singers, the Nethinim, 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 They 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 Yahweh 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 of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would
forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. 32 Also we made
ordinances for us, 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, and for
the continual meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the
Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set 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 We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the
people, 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 altar of Yahweh our God, 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 manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh; 36 also 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 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, and our heave-offerings, and the
fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to
the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the
Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our
tillage. 38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when
the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the
tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house.
39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the
heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the
chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests who
minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house
of our God.
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