Nehemiah 10:28-39
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28 The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with their wives, sons, and daughters, everyone who is able to understand(A) and who has separated themselves from the surrounding peoples(B) to obey the law of God— 29 join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath[a](C) to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses(D) and to obey carefully all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of the Lord our Lord.
Details of the Vow
30 We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons.(E)
31 When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day.(F) We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year(G) and will cancel every debt.(H)
32 We will impose the following commands on ourselves:
To give an eighth of an ounce of silver[b] yearly for the service of the house of our God:(I) 33 the bread displayed before the Lord,[c](J) the daily grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbath and New Moon offerings,(K) the appointed festivals, the holy things, the sin offerings to atone for Israel,(L) and for all the work of the house of our God.
34 We have cast lots(M) among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our ancestral families[d] at the appointed times each year. They are to bring the wood to our God’s house to burn on the altar of the Lord our God,(N) as it is written in the law.
35 We will bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the Lord’s house year by year.(O) 36 We will also bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as prescribed by the law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God,(P) to the priests who serve in our God’s house. 37 We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough(Q) to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain offerings, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and fresh oil.(R) A tenth of our land’s produce belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-tenth offering in all our agricultural towns.(S) 38 A priest from Aaron’s descendants is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth,(T) and the Levites are to take a tenth of this offering to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.(U) 39 For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and fresh oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept(V) and where the priests who minister are, along with the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.(W)
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Nehemiah 10:28-39
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Summary of the Covenant
28 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to adhere to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,(A) 29 join with their kin, their nobles, and enter into a curse and 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 the Lord our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.(B) 30 We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons,(C) 31 and if the peoples of the land bring in merchandise or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy it from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day, and we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.(D)
32 We also lay on ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:(E) 33 for the rows of bread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed festivals, the sacred donations, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. 34 We have also cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, by ancestral houses, at appointed times, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law.(F) 35 We obligate ourselves to bring the first fruits of our soil and the first fruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord;(G) 36 also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks;(H) 37 and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our soil, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns.(I) 38 And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes, and the Levites shall bring up a tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.(J) 39 For the Israelites and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the storerooms where the vessels of the sanctuary are and where the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and the singers are. We will not neglect the house of our God.(K)
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