Nehemiah:10

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* Now those who placed their seal on the document were : Nehemiah the governor , the son of Hacaliah , and Zedekiah , * Seraiah , Azariah , Jeremiah , * Pashhur , Amariah , Malchijah , * Hattush , Shebaniah , Malluch , * Harim , Meremoth , Obadiah , * Daniel , Ginnethon , Baruch , * Meshullam , Abijah , Mijamin , * Maaziah , Bilgai , and Shemaiah . These were the priests . * The Levites : Jeshua the son of Azaniah , Binnui of the sons of Henadad , and Kadmiel . * Their brethren : Shebaniah , Hodijah , Kelita , Pelaiah , Hanan , * Micha , Rehob , Hashabiah , * Zaccur , Sherebiah , Shebaniah , * Hodijah , Bani , and Beninu . * The leaders of the people : Parosh , Pahath-Moab , Elam , Zattu , Bani , * Bunni , Azgad , Bebai , * Adonijah , Bigvai , Adin , * Ater , Hezekiah , Azzur , * Hodijah , Hashum , Bezai , * Hariph , Anathoth , Nebai , * Magpiash , Meshullam , Hezir , * Meshezabel , Zadok , Jaddua , * Pelatiah , Hanan , Anaiah , * Hoshea , Hananiah , Hasshub , * Hallohesh , Pilha , Shobek , * Rehum , Hashabnah , Maaseiah , * Ahijah , Hanan , Anan , * Malluch , Harim , and Baanah . * Now the rest of the people--the priests , the Levites , the gatekeepers , the singers , the Nethinim , and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God , their wives , their sons , and their daughters , everyone who had knowledge and understanding -- * these joined with their brethren , their nobles , and entered 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 LORD our Lord , and His ordinances and His statutes : * We would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land , nor take their daughters for our sons ; * if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day , we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath , or on a holy day ; and we would forego the seventh year 's produce and the exacting of every debt . * Also we made ordinances for ourselves , to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God : * for the showbread , for the regular grain offering , for the regular burnt offering of the Sabbaths , the New Moons , and the set feasts ; for the holy things , for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel , and all the work of the house of our God . * We cast lots among the priests , the Levites , and the people , for bringing the wood offering into the house of our God , according to our fathers ' houses , at the appointed times year by year , to burn on the altar of the LORD our God as it is written in the Law . * And we made ordinances to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees , year by year , to the house of the LORD ; * to bring the firstborn of our sons and our cattle , as it is written in the Law , and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks , to the house of our God , to the priests who minister in the house of our God ; * to bring the firstfruits of our dough , our offerings , the fruit from all kinds of trees , the new wine and oil , to the priests , to the storerooms of the house of our God ; and to bring the tithes of our land to the Levites , for the Levites should receive the tithes in all our farming communities . * And the priest , the descendant of Aaron , shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive tithes ; and the Levites shall bring up a tenth of the tithes to the house of our God , to the rooms of the storehouse . * For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the grain , of the new wine and the oil , to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are , where the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and the singers are ; and we will not neglect the house of our God .

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