32 We also [a]placed ourselves under obligation to contribute yearly (A)one third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: 33 for the (B)showbread, for the continual grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moon, for the appointed times, for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

34 Likewise (C)we cast lots (D)for the supply of wood among the priests, the Levites and the people so that they might bring it to the house of our God, according to our fathers’ households, at fixed times annually, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law;

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 10:32 Lit imposed commandments on us