Nehemiah 10

1Those who sealed it were: Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

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2Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

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3Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,

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4Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,

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5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

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6Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

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7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

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8Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

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9The Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the children of Henadad, and Kadmiel.

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10Their brothers: Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

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11Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,

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12Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

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13Hodijah, the children of Beninu.

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14The leaders of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zattu, the children of

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15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

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16Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

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17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

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18Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,

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19Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

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20Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

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21Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,

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22Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

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23Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,

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24Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

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25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

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26Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,

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27Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.

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28And the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those separating from the peoples of the land to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding

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29these, joining with their brothers, bound themselves with a curse and entered into a curse and 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 our Lord and His statutes:

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30not to give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

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31and if the peoples of the land brought wares to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day; and we would forgo the seventh year's produce and the exacting of every debt.

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32Also we will make ordinances for ourselves to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

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33for the showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the regular burnt offering of the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts; for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

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34We—the priests, the Levites, and the people—cast lots for bringing the wood offering into the house of our God according to our fathers' houses, at the appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God as it is written in the Law.

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35And we made ordinances to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the Lord;

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36to bring the firstborn of our sons and our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;

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37to bring the firstfruits of our grain, the fruit from all kinds of trees, the new wine and oil to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God; and to bring the tithes of our land to the Levites, for the Levites should receive the tithes in all the cities of our servitude.

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38And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive tithes; and the Levites shall bring up a tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms of the storehouse.

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39For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are, where the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and the singers are; and we will not neglect the house of our God.

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