Nehemiah 10

10 ¹Now those who set their seal to it were: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, ²Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, ³Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, ⁴Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, ⁵Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, ⁶Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, ⁷Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, ⁸Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests. ⁹And the Levites: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel, ¹⁰and their fellow Levites: Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, ¹¹Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, ¹²Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, ¹³Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu. ¹⁴The leaders of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, ¹⁵Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, ¹⁶Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, ¹⁷Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, ¹⁸Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, ¹⁹Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, ²⁰Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, ²¹Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, ²²Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, ²³Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, ²⁴Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, ²⁵Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, ²⁶Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, ²⁷Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.

The People Bind Themselves to the Father

²⁸The rest of the people—priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who separated from the peoples of the lands for the law of our Father—with their wives, sons, and daughters, everyone with knowledge and understanding, ²⁹all these joined their fellow nobles, bound by curse and oath to follow the law of our Father given through Moses his servant, and to keep and do all commands of our Sovereign Father, his rulings and his statutes. ³⁰We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us, nor take their daughters for our sons. ³¹If the peoples of the land bring goods or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or any holy day. Every seventh year we will let the land rest and cancel every debt.

³²We also bind ourselves to give an eighth of an ounce of silver yearly for the service of our Father's house: ³³for the bread set before him, the daily grain and burnt offerings, the Sabbath, New Moon, and feast offerings, the holy gifts, and the sin offerings to atone for Israel—for all the work of our Father's house. ³⁴We, priests, Levites, and people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it to our Father's house by our families, at set times each year, to burn on our Father's altar, as the law states. ³⁵We also commit to bring firstfruits of our soil and firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of our Father. ³⁶We will also bring the firstborn of our sons and livestock, as written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and flocks, to our Father's house, to the priests serving there. ³⁷We 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 our Father's house; and the tenth of our land to the Levites, since the Levites collect the tenth in all our farming towns. ³⁸A priest descended from Aaron will join the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites will bring a tenth of that up to our Father's house, to the storerooms of the treasury. ³⁹The people of Israel and the Levites will bring the grain, new wine, and oil contributions to the storerooms holding the sanctuary articles, where the serving priests, gatekeepers, and singers stay. We will not neglect our Father's house.