This edition follows the Hebrew versification; the traditional number is given in brackets.
The names on the sealed document
1[9:38]In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement and putting it in writing; and on the sealed document are our leaders, our Levites and our priests. 2[10:1]On the sealed document: Nehemiah the Tirshatha, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, 3[10:2]Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 4[10:3]Pashhur, Amariah, Malkijah, 5[10:4]Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, 6[10:5]Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, 7[10:6]Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, 8[10:7]Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, 9[10:8]Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah. These were the priests. 10[10:9]The Levites: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel, 11[10:10]and their kinsmen: Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 12[10:11]Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, 13[10:12]Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 14[10:13]Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. 15[10:14]The heads of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, 16[10:15]Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 17[10:16]Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 18[10:17]Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, 19[10:18]Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, 20[10:19]Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, 21[10:20]Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 22[10:21]Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, 23[10:22]Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 24[10:23]Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, 25[10:24]Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, 26[10:25]Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, 27[10:26]Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, 28[10:27]Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
What we bind ourselves to do
29[10:28]The rest of the people — the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and everyone who had separated from the peoples of the lands for the law of God, along with their wives, their sons and their daughters, all who were old enough to know and understand — 30[10:29]took their stand with their leading kinsmen and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in the law of God, given through Moses the servant of God, and to observe and carry out all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, his rulings and his statutes. 31[10:30]We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons. 32[10:31]When the peoples of the land bring in merchandise or grain of any kind to sell on the Sabbath day, we will buy nothing from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. In the seventh year we will let the land rest and cancel every debt. 33[10:32]We take upon ourselves the obligation to give a third of a shekel each year for the service of the house of our God: 34[10:33]for the bread of the presence, the daily grain offering and the daily burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, the new moons and the appointed festivals, for the holy gifts and the sin offerings that make atonement for Israel — for all the work of the house of our God. 35[10:34]We — priests, Levites and people — have cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it to the house of our God, family by family, at set times year after year, for burning on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law. 36[10:35]We will bring to the house of Yahweh, year after year, the firstfruits of our soil and the firstfruits of every fruit of every tree. 37[10:36]We will bring the firstborn of our sons and of our animals, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks, bringing them to the house of our God, to the priests who minister there. 38[10:37]We will bring to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God, the first of our coarse meal, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine and the oil; and to the Levites the tithe of our soil, since it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we work the land. 39[10:38]A priest, a descendant of Aaron, is to be with the Levites when they take 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. 40[10:39]For the Israelites 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.
