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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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="nb"><span class="v16_10_1"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.1" class="v16_10_1">1</span>As governor, I<a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.1!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> signed the agreement together with Zedekiah and the following priests: </span><span class="v16_10_2"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.2-Neh.10.8" class="v16_10_2">2-8</span>Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v16_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.9" class="v16_10_9">9</span>The Levites who signed were: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui from the clan of Henadad, Kadmiel, </span><span class="v16_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.10" class="v16_10_10">10</span>Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, </span><span class="v16_10_11"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.11" class="v16_10_11">11</span>Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, </span><span class="v16_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.12" class="v16_10_12">12</span>Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, </span><span class="v16_10_13"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.13" class="v16_10_13">13</span>Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v16_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.14" class="v16_10_14">14</span>The leaders who signed were: Parosh, Pahath Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, </span><span class="v16_10_15"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.15" class="v16_10_15">15</span>Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, </span><span class="v16_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.16" class="v16_10_16">16</span>Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, </span><span class="v16_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.17" class="v16_10_17">17</span>Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, </span><span class="v16_10_18"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.18" class="v16_10_18">18</span>Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, </span><span class="v16_10_19"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.19" class="v16_10_19">19</span>Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, </span><span class="v16_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.20" class="v16_10_20">20</span>Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, </span><span class="v16_10_21"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.21" class="v16_10_21">21</span>Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, </span><span class="v16_10_22"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.22" class="v16_10_22">22</span>Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, </span><span class="v16_10_23"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.23" class="v16_10_23">23</span>Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, </span><span class="v16_10_24"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.24" class="v16_10_24">24</span>Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, </span><span class="v16_10_25"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.25" class="v16_10_25">25</span>Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, </span><span class="v16_10_26"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.26" class="v16_10_26">26</span>Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, </span><span class="v16_10_27"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.27" class="v16_10_27">27</span>Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Agreement</h3><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_28"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.28-Neh.10.29" class="v16_10_28">28-29</span>All of us, including priests, Levites, temple guards, singers, temple workers and leaders, together with our wives and children, have separated ourselves from the foreigners in this land and now enter into an agreement with a complete understanding of what we are doing. And so, we now place ourselves under the curse of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God, if we fail to obey his laws and teachings that were given to us by his servant Moses.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_30"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.30" class="v16_10_30">30</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.30!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> We won't let our sons and daughters marry foreigners.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_31"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.31" class="v16_10_31">31</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.31!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> We won't buy goods or grain on the Sabbath or on any other sacred day, not even from foreigners.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_31">Every seven years we will let our fields rest, and we will cancel all debts.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_32"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.32" class="v16_10_32">32</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.32!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Once a year we will each donate a small amount of silver to the temple of our God. </span><span class="v16_10_33"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.33" class="v16_10_33">33</span>This is to pay for the sacred bread, as well as for the daily sacrifices and special sacrifices such as those offered on the Sabbath and during the New Moon Festival and the other festivals. It will also pay for the sacrifices to forgive our sins and for all expenses connected with the worship of God in the temple.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_34"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.34" class="v16_10_34">34</span>We have decided that the families<a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.34!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> of priests, Levites, and ordinary people will supply firewood for the temple each year, so that sacrifices can be offered on the altar, just as the <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God has commanded.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_35"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.35" class="v16_10_35">35</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.35!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Each year we will bring to the temple the first part of our harvest of grain and fruit.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_36"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.36" class="v16_10_36">36</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.36!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> We will bring our first-born sons and the first-born males of our herds and flocks and offer them to the priests who serve in the temple, because this is what is written in God's Law.<a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.36!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_37"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.37" class="v16_10_37">37</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.37!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> To the priests in the temple of our God, we will bring the bread dough from the first harvest, together with our best fruit, and an offering of new wine and olive oil.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_37">We will bring ten percent of our grain harvest to those Levites who are responsible for collecting it in our towns. </span><span class="v16_10_38"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.38" class="v16_10_38">38</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Neh.10.38!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> A priest from the family of Aaron must be there when we give this to the Levites. Then the Levites will put one tenth of this part in the temple storeroom, </span><span class="v16_10_39"><span class="reftext" id="Neh.10.39" class="v16_10_39">39</span>which is also the place for the sacred objects used by the priests, the temple guards, and the singers.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_39">Levites and everyone else must bring their gifts of grain, wine, and olive oil to this room.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v16_10_39">We will not neglect the temple of our God.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">I: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Nehemiah son of Hacaliah.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.34 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">that the families: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “which families.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.36 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">first-born sons … God's Law: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See Exodus 13.2,12-15; 34.19,20.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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