1And at the head of those that sealed were Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zedekiah.

2— Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

3Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,

4Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,

5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

6Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

8Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.

9— And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah; Binnui, of the sons of Henadad; Kadmiel,

10and their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

11Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,

12Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

13Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.

14— The chief of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,

15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

16Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

18Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,

19Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

20Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

21Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,

22Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

23Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,

24Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

26and Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,

27Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

28And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the doorkeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of ³⁶God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, every one having knowledge [and] having understanding,

29joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in the law of ³⁷God, which had been given by Moses the servant of ³⁸God, and to keep and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

30and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

31and that if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we would not take it of them on the sabbath, or on [any] holy day; and that we would leave [the land uncultivated] the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

32And we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our ³⁹God,

33for the bread to be set in rows, and for the continual oblation, and for the continual burnt-offering, [for that] of the sabbaths [and] 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 ⁴⁰God.

34And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring [it] into the house of our ⁴¹God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our ⁴²God, as it is written in the law;

35and to bring the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year to the house of Jehovah,

36and the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the law; and to bring the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks to the house of our ⁴³God, to the priests that minister in the house of our ⁴⁴God;

37and that we should bring the first-fruits of our coarse meal and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, new wine and oil, to the priests, into the chambers of the house of our ⁴⁵God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that they, the Levites, should take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

38And 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 to the house of our ⁴⁶God, into the chambers of the treasure-house.

39For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the corn, of the new wine and the oil, into the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the doorkeepers and the singers. And we will not forsake the house of our ⁴⁷God.