Chapter 10 Now those that sealed were Nehemiah the Tereshether, the son of
Hakaliah, and Zidkaijah, Siraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, Pasha, Amariah,
Malkijah, Hatush, Shebaniah, Maloch, Herim, Merimoth, Obadiah, Daniel,
Ginnithon, Baruch, Meshulam, Abijah, Midyamin, Meaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah.
These were the priests.
And the Levites, both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binuai of the sons of Henadad,
Cadmiel, and their brethren Shebaniah, Hadijah, Kelaitah, Peleah, Hanan,
Micah, Rehob, Hashabiah, Zakkah, Sherobiah, Shebaniah, Hodijah,
Benai, Benaynu, the chief of the people, Peirosh, Pehethmoab, Elam, Zathu,
Benai, Bunai, Asgad, Bibai, Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, Eita, Hizkaijah,
Azer, Hudaijah, Hesham, Bezai, Herif, Anathoth, Nebai, Magpiash,
Meshulam, Hezer, Meshezebiel, Zadok, Jadua, Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
Hoshea, Hananiah, Heshub, Elohesh, Pilaha, Shobak, Rehum, Hashabnah,
Meosiah, And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, Maloch, Herim, Bayenah, and the rest of
the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethenims,
and all that they had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law
of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having
knowledge and having understanding.
They claimed to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse,
and into 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 judgments, and His statutes, and that we would not give our daughters
unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.
And if the people of the land bring ware or any vittles on the sabbath day to sell,
that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day, and that we
would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every dead.
Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third
part of a shekel, for the service of the house of our God, for the showbread,
and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering,
of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy
things, and for the sin offerings, to make an atonement for Israel,
and for all the work of the house of our God.
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood
offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers,
at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the Lord our
God, as it is written in the law, and to bring the firstfruits of our
ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house
of the Lord.
Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the
law, and the firstlings of our herds, and of our flocks, to bring to the house
of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God.
And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings,
and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine, and of oil, unto the priests,
to the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our ground unto the
Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our
tillage.
And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites, when the
Levites take tithes.
And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God,
to the chambers, into the treasure house.
For the children of Israel, and the children of Levi, shall bring the offering
of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels
of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the
singers.
And we will not forsake the house of our God.