[1] Now those who put down their names were Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son
of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, [2] Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, [3] Pashhur,
Amariah, Malchijah, [4] Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, [5] Harim, Meremoth,
Obadiah, [6] Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, [7] Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, [8]
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests. [9] And the Levites: by
name, Jeshua, the son of Azaniah, Binnui, of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel,
[10] And their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, [11]
Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, [12] Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, [13] Hodiah,
Bani, Beninu. [14] The chiefs 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,
Nobai, [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] And Ahiah,
Hanan, Anan, [27] Malluch, Harim, Baanah. [28] And the rest of the people,
the priests, the Levites, the door-keepers, the music-makers, the Nethinim,
and all those who had made themselves separate from the peoples of the
lands, to keep the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their
daughters, everyone who had knowledge and wisdom; [29] They were united
with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an
oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by
Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord,
our Lord, and his decisions and his rules; [30] And that we would not give
our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our
sons; [31] And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or
food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath
or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment
from any debtor. [32] And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a
third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God; [33]
For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular
burned offering on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts,
and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the
work of the house of our God. [34] And we, the priests and the Levites and
the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were
to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular
times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it
is recorded in the law; [35] And to take the first-fruits of our land, and
the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the
Lord; [36] As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is
recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks,
which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are
servants in the house of our God: [37] And that we would take the first of
our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of
tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our
God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the
Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land. [38] And the
priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take
the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the
house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house; [39] For the children
of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the
grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place
are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of
music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.