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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Nehemiah 10 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/nehemiah/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/nehemiah/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Nehemiah 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../nehemiah/9.htm" title="Nehemiah 9">◄</a> Nehemiah 10 <a href="../nehemiah/11.htm" title="Nehemiah 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/nehemiah/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The People Who Sealed the Covenant</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 10:2 in Hebrew">a</a></sup></span> “On the seals are the names of<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew lacks the names of">b</a></sup></span> Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Malluch, Harim, Baanah.</p> <p class="heading">The Obligations of the Covenant</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></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 the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our Lord and his rules and his statutes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy 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.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams">c</a></sup></span> for the service of the house of our God: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots 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 the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, as it is written in the Law. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></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 cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></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 ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Ch 10:2 in Hebrew<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">the names of</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">32</span> A <i class="catch-word">shekel</i> was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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