1Upon the sealed document were Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,2Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,3Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,4Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,6Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,8Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.9And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;10and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,11Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,12Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,13Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.14The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,16Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,18Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,19Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,20Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,21Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,22Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,23Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,24Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,26Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,27Malluch, Harim, Baanah.28“The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who had knowledge and understanding,29join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.30We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.31And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.32“We also ordain for ourselves to charge ourselves yearly with a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:33for the showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the regular burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.34“We have likewise cast lots, priest, Levite, and people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at appointed times, year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.35We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD;36also the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;37and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.38And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, to the storehouse.39For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, new wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and where the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers are. We will not neglect the house of our God.”