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</span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>And the Levites: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>and their associates, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The leaders of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Summary of the Covenant</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to adhere to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>join with their kin, their nobles, and enter 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 the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>and if the peoples of the land bring in merchandise or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy it from them on the sabbath or on a holy day; and we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>We also lay on ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>for the rows of bread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed festivals, the sacred donations, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>We have also cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, by ancestral houses, at appointed times, year by year, to burn on the altar of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> our God, as it is written in the law. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>We obligate ourselves to bring the first fruits of our soil and the first fruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our soil, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes; and the Levites shall bring up a tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the storerooms where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and where the priests that minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers are. We will not neglect the house of our God.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 10:1">Nehemiah 10:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Ch 10.2 in Heb</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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