Neh 10:32-39 | TNotes

10:33 ^a Bread of the Presence: See Lev 24:5-9 ^b; Num 28:1-8 ^c.

• everything necessary: With the money from the annual tax, priests could purchase the animals for daily sacrifices and maintain the Temple complex (cp. 2 Kgs 12:11-12 ^d; see also Exod 30:11-16 ^e).
10:34 ^f Because the fire on the altar burned continually (Lev 6:12 ^g), a good deal of wood was used. The Gibeonites provided it at an earlier time (Josh 9:27 ^h), but now it was a joint responsibility.
Summary for Neh 10:35-37: 10:35-37 ⁱ Offerings from the community provided food for the priests and Levites, who had no allocations of agricultural land and no means of providing for themselves. These provisions came from the first part of every harvest (see Exod 23:19 ^j; 34:26 ^k; Num 18:12-13 ^l; Deut 26:1-11 ^m), the redemption money of five shekels paid for the oldest sons and the firstborn of all the herds and flocks (see Exod 13:13 ⁿ; 34:20 ^o; Num 18:15-17 ^p), as well as a tenth of everything (see Num 18:21-24 ^q; Deut 14:22-29 ^r).
Summary for Neh 10:37-39: 10:37-39 ^s The Levites collected the tithes in all ... rural towns and sent a tenth of that collection to the Temple in Jerusalem (see Num 18:25-32 ^t).