1 Those who set their seal were: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah. These were the priests.
9 And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
10 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
13 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.
14 The heads of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28 The rest of the people, the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands for the sake of the law of God, together with their wives, sons, and daughters, all who were able to understand,
29 joined their brothers, their nobles, and bound themselves with a curse and an oath to follow God's law given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments, judgments, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
30 We will not give our daughters in marriage to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.
31 When the peoples of the land bring goods or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will let the land rest and will cancel every debt.
32 We also took on ourselves the duty of giving a third of a shekel each year for the service of the house of our God:
33 for the bread set in rows, the regular grain offering and the regular burnt offering, the offerings on the Sabbaths, new moons, and appointed feasts, the holy offerings, the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.
34 We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have cast lots for supplying wood, to bring it to the house of our God by fathers' houses at set times each year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as written in the law.
35 We will also bring to the house of the LORD each year the firstfruits of our soil and the firstfruits of every fruit tree,
36 and, as written in the law, the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, and the firstborn of our herds and flocks, bringing them to the house of our God, to the priests who serve there.
37 We will bring the first of our dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, new wine, and oil to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God, and the tithe of our produce to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the towns where we farm.
38 A priest descended from Aaron is to accompany the Levites when they receive the tithes, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of the tithes up to the house of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.
39 The children of Israel and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. We will not neglect the house of our God.