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Nehemiah 10 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The People Who Sealed the Covenant
The People Who Sealed the Covenant
Neh 10:1Now those who placed their seal on the document were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
Neh 10:2Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
Neh 10:3Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
Neh 10:4Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
Neh 10:5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
Neh 10:6Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
Neh 10:7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
Neh 10:8Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.
Neh 10:9The Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, and Kadmiel.
Neh 10:10Their brethren: Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
Neh 10:11Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
Neh 10:12Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
Neh 10:13Hodijah, Bani, and Beninu.
Neh 10:14The leaders of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
Neh 10:15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
Neh 10:16Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
Neh 10:17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
Neh 10:18Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,
Neh 10:19Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
Neh 10:20Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
Neh 10:21Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
Neh 10:22Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
Neh 10:23Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
Neh 10:24Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
Neh 10:25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
Neh 10:26Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
Neh 10:27Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.
The Covenant That Was Sealed
Neh 10:28Now the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding—
Neh 10:29these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered 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:
Neh 10:30We would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
Neh 10:31if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the seventh year’s produce and the exacting of every debt.
Neh 10:32Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
Neh 10:33for the showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the regular burnt offering of the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts; for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.
Neh 10:34We cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for bringing the wood offering into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at the appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God as it is written in the Law.
Neh 10:35And we made ordinances to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the LORD;
Neh 10:36to bring the firstborn of our sons and our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks, to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;
Neh 10:37to bring the firstfruits of our dough, our offerings, the fruit from all kinds of trees, the new wine and oil, to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God; and to bring the tithes of our land to the Levites, for the Levites should receive the tithes in all our farming communities.
Neh 10:38And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive tithes; and the Levites shall bring up a tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms of the storehouse.
Neh 10:39For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil, to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are, where the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and the singers are; and we will not neglect the house of our God.
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