²⁸ “The rest of the people—priests, Levites, gatekeepers, musicians, temple servants^(A) and all who separated themselves from the neighboring peoples^(B) for the sake of the Law of God, together with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand— ²⁹ all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath^(C) to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the Lord our Lord.

³⁰ “We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons.^(D)

³¹ “When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath,^(E) we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land^(F) and will cancel all debts.^(G)

³⁷ “Moreover, we will bring to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the priests, the first of our ground meal, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees and of our new wine and olive oil.^(A) And we will bring a tithe^(B) of our crops to the Levites,^(C) for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we work.^{(D) 38} A priest descended from Aaron is to accompany the Levites when they receive the tithes, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of the tithes^(E) up to the house of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury. ³⁹ The people of Israel, including the Levites, are to bring their contributions of grain, new wine and olive oil to the storerooms, where the articles for the sanctuary and for the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the musicians are also kept.

“We will not neglect the house of our God.”^(F)