[1] Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, 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] The Levites: namely, 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] The rest of the people, the priests, the
Levites, the porters, 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; [29] They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and
entered into a curse, and into 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 Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; [30]
and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor
take their daughters for our sons; [31] and if the peoples of the land
bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy
of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the
seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. [32] Also we made ordinances
for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the
service of the house of our God; [33] for the show bread, and for the
continual meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the
Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things,
and for the sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the
work of the house of our God. [34] We cast lots, the priests, the Levites,
and the people, 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 Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law; [35] and
to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit
of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh; [36] also 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, to bring to the house of our
God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God; [37] and that we
should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and
the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests,
to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to
the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of
our tillage. [38] The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites,
when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of
the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the
treasure-house. [39] For the children of Israel and the children of Levi
shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the
oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the
priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not
forsake the house of our God.
