The People Who Sealed the Covenant

10 ^{[a] (A)}“On the seals are the names of^[b] Nehemiah ^(B)the governor, ^(C)the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah,

^38 [a] “Because of all this ^(A)we make a firm covenant in writing; on ^(B)the sealed document are the names of^[b] our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

This Day Is Holy

⁹ And Nehemiah, who was ^(A)the governor, and Ezra ^(B)the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, ^(C)“This day is holy to the Lord your God; ^(D)do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.

Report from Jerusalem

1 The words of ^(A)Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.

Now it happened in the month of ^(B)Chislev, ^(C)in the twentieth year, as I was in ^(D)Susa the citadel,

⁷⁰ Now some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The ^(A)governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics^[a] of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests' garments and 500 minas^[b] of silver.^[c]

⁶³ The ^(A)governor told them that they were not ^(B)to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult ^(C)Urim and Thummim.