Nehemiah 10

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

² Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

³ Pashhur, Amariah, Malkijah,

⁴ Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluk,

⁵ Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

⁶ Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

⁷ Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

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

⁹ The Levites: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel,

¹⁰ and their brothers: Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

¹¹ Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,

¹² Zakkur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

¹³ Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.

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

¹⁵ Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

¹⁶ Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

¹⁷ Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

¹⁸ Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,

¹⁹ Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

²⁰ Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

²¹ Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,

²² Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

²³ Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,

²⁴ Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

²⁵ Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

²⁶ Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,

²⁷ Malluk, Harim, and Baanah.

²⁸ The rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, along with their wives, sons, and daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding—

²⁹ joined with their noble brothers and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given through Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commands of the LORD our Lord, his ordinances, and his statutes.

³⁰ We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

³¹ If the peoples of the land bring merchandise or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. We will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

³² We also impose on ourselves the obligation to give a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:

³³ for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

³⁴ We—the priests, the Levites, and the people—have cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it to the house of our God by families, at appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.

³⁵ 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 LORD,

³⁶ and 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 firstborn of our herds and our flocks.

³⁷ We will bring the first of our dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine, and the oil to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God; and the tithes from our ground to the Levites, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our farming communities.

³⁸ A priest, a descendant of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up a tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.

³⁹ For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and where the priests who minister, the gatekeepers, and the singers are. We will not neglect the house of our God.