NEḤEMYAH 10

1 And those who put their seal were: Neḥemyah the governor, son of Ḥaḵalyah, and Tsiḏqiyahu,

2 Serayah, Azaryahu, Yirmeyahu,

3 Pashḥur, Amaryah, Malkiyah,

4 Ḥattush, Sheḇanyah, Malluḵ,

5 Ḥarim, Merĕmoth, Oḇaḏyah,

6 Dani’ĕl, Ginnethon, Baruḵ,

7 Meshullam, Abḇiyah, Miyamin,

8 Ma’azyah, Bilgai, and Shemayah. These were the kohenim.

9 And the Lĕwites: both Yĕshua son of Azanyah, Binnui of the sons of Ḥĕnaḏaḏ, Qaḏmi’ĕl.

10 And their brothers: Sheḇanyah, Hoḏiyah, Qelita, Pelayah, Ḥanan,

11 Miḵa, Reḥoḇ, Ḥashaḇyah,

12 Zakkur, Shĕrĕḇyah, Sheḇanyah,

13 Hoḏiyah, Bani, and Beninu.

14 The leaders of the people: Parosh, Paḥath-Mo’aḇ, Ĕylam, Zattu, Bani,

15 Bunni, Azgaḏ, Bĕḇai,

16 Aḏoniyah, Biḡwai, Aḏin,

17 Atĕr, Ḥizqiyah, Azzur,

18 Hoḏiyah, Ḥashum, Bĕtsai,

19 Ḥariph, Anathoth, Nĕḇai,

20 Maḡpi’ash, Meshullam, Ḥĕzir,

21 Meshĕyzaḇ’ĕl, Tsaḏoq, Yaddua,

22 Pelatyah, Ḥanan, Anayah,

23 Hoshĕa, Ḥananyah, Ḥashshuḇ,

24 Halloḥĕsh, Pilḥa, Shoḇĕq,

25 Reḥum, Ḥashaḇnah, Ma’asĕyah,

26 Aḥiyah, Ḥanan, Anan,

27 Malluḵ, Ḥarim, Ba’anah.

28 And the rest of the people, the kohenim, the Lĕwites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the Torah of Elohim, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all who had knowledge and understanding,

29 were joining with their brothers, their nobles, and were entering into a curse and into an oath to walk in the Torah of Elohim, which was given by Mosheh the servant of Elohim, and to guard and do all the Commands of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Aḏon, and His Right-Rulings and His Laws,

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

31 and that if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain to sell on the Shabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Shabbath, or on a qodesh day, and we would forego the seventh year and the interest of every hand.

32 And we imposed commands on ourselves, to give from ourselves yearly one-third of a sheqel for the service of the House of our Elohim:

33 for the showbread, and for the continual grain offering, and for the continual burnt offering of the Shabbathoth, of the New Moons, for the Appointed Times, and for the qodesh offerings, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Yisra’ĕl, and all the work of the House of our Elohim.

34 And we cast lots among the kohenim, and the Lĕwites, and the people, for bringing the wood offering into the House of our Elohim, according to our fathers’ houses, at the Appointed Times year by year, to burn on the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Elohim as it is written in the Torah,

35 and 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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,

36 also to bring the first-born of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Torah, and the firstlings of our herds and our flocks, to the House of our Elohim, to the kohenim attending in the House of our Elohim.

37 And that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our contributions, and the fruit from all kinds of trees, of new wine and of oil, to the kohenim, to the storerooms of the House of our Elohim; and the tithes of our land to the Lĕwites, for the Lĕwites should receive the tithes in all our rural towns.

38 And the kohĕn, son of Aharon, shall be with the Lĕwites when the Lĕwites receive tithes, and the Lĕwites bring up a tenth of the tithes to the House of our Elohim, to the rooms of the storehouse.

39 For the children of Yisra’ĕl and the children of Lĕwi bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil, to the storerooms where the vessels of the Miqdash are, where the kohenim who attend and the gatekeepers and the singers are, and we should not neglect the House of our Elohim.