“1 Now those that sealed [were], Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of
Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 3 Pashur, 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 And the Levites: both
Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; 10
And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 11 Micha,
Rehob, Hashabiah, 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 13 Hodijah, Bani,
Beninu. 14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu,
Bani, 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 17 Ater,
Hizkijah, Azzur, 18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai, 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua, 22
Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub, 24 Hallohesh,
Pileha, Shobek, 25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, 26 And Ahijah, Hanan,
Anan, 27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah. 28 And the rest of the people, the
priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all
they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the
law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one
having knowledge, and having understanding; 29 They clave to their
brethren, 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 the LORD our Lord, and his
judgments and his statutes; 30 And that we would not give our daughters
unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: 31
And [if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the
sabbath day to sell, [that] we would not buy it of them on the sabbath,
or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave 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 shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the
continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set
feasts, and for the holy [things], and for the sin offerings to make an
atonement for Israel, and [for] all the work of the house of our God. 34
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for
the wood offering, to bring [it] into the house of our God, after the
houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the
altar of the LORD our God, as [it is] written in the law: 35 And to
bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of
all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD: 36 Also the
firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as [it is] written in the law,
and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house
of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God: 37
And [that] we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our
offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil,
unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the
tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have
the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. 38 And 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 unto 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 offering of the corn, of
the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where [are] the vessels of
the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the
singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.” (Nehemiah
10:1-39 AV)
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