Nehemiah 9:8

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You found ^ahis heart faithful before You,

And cut a covenant with him

To give him the land of the Canaanite,

Of the Hittite and the Amorite,

Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite—

To give it to his seed.

And You ^bhave established Your promise,

For You are righteous.

Nehemiah 9:26

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“^aBut they became disobedient and rebelled against You,

And ^bcast Your law behind their backs

And ^ckilled Your prophets who had ^dtestified to them

So that they might return to You,

And ^ethey ¹committed great ²blasphemies.

Nehemiah 9:32-38

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“So now, our God, ^athe great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness,

Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You,

Which has found us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all Your people,

^bFrom the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.

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However, ^aYou are righteous in all that has come upon us;

For You have dealt in truth, but we have acted wickedly.

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Now our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers did not do Your law

Or pay attention to Your commandments and Your testimonies with which You testified against them.

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But ^athey, in their own kingdom,

^bWith Your abundant goodness which You gave them,

With the broad and rich land which You set before them,

Did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds.

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Behold, ^awe are slaves today,

And as to the land which You gave to our fathers to eat of its fruit and its goodness,

Behold, we are slaves in it.

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^aIts abundant produce is for the kings

Whom You have put over us because of our sins;

They also rule over our bodies

And over our cattle according to their desire,

So we are in great distress.

An Agreement Is Cut

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“¹Now because of all this

^aWe are cutting an agreement in writing;

And on the ^bsealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.”

Nehemiah 10:1-39

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Signers of the Document

¹Now on the ^asealed document were the following names:

Nehemiah the ²governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

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Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

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Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,

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Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,

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Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

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Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

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Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

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Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah. These were the priests.

9 And the Levites:

Jeshua the son of Azaniah,

Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

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also their brothers Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

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Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,

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Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

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Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.

14 The heads of the people:

Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

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Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

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Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

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Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

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Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,

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Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

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Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

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Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,

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Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

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Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,

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Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

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Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

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Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,

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Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

The People Enter into an Oath

28 Now ^athe rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and ^ball those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters—all those who had knowledge and understanding, 29 are ¹joining with their ²relatives, their nobles, and are ^aentering into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given by the hand of Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord and His judgments and His statutes; 30 and ^athat we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. 31 As ^afor the peoples of the land who bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not receive from them on the sabbath or a holy day; and we will forego the crops the ^bseventh year and the ^cexaction of every debt.
32 We also ¹set ourselves under the commandments to give yearly ^aone-third of a ²shekel for the service of the house of our God: 33 for the ^ashowbread, 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 ^awe cast lots ^bfor the supply of wood among the priests, the Levites, and the people, in order to bring it to the house of our God, according to our fathers’ households, at fixed times annually, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law; 35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground and ^athe first fruits of all the fruit of every tree to the house of Yahweh annually, 36 and to ^abring to the house of our God the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks as it is written in the law, for the priests who are ministering in the house of our God. 37 ^aWe will also bring the first of our ¹dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine and the oil ^bto the priests at the chambers of the house of our God, and the ^ctithe of our ground to the Levites, for the Levites are they who receive the tithes in all the towns where we serve. 38 ^aAnd the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive tithes, and the Levites shall bring up the tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of ^bthe storehouse. 39 For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the ^acontribution of the grain, the new wine and the oil to the chambers; the utensils of the sanctuary are there, as well as the priests who are ministering and the gatekeepers and the singers. Thus ^bwe will not forsake the house of our God.