Neh 5:12-13, 9:38, 10:29-39 | ESV | STEP | Then they said , We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say . And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised .

Nehemiah 5:12-13

12 Then they said, “We will restore these and ^arequire nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and ^bmade them swear ^cto do as they had promised. 13 ^dI also shook out the fold ^{▼▼Hebrew bosom} of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” ^fAnd all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.

Nehemiah 9:38

38 ^{▼▼Ch 10:1 in Hebrew} “Because of all this ^hwe make a firm covenant in writing; on ⁱthe sealed document are the names of ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks the names of} our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

Nehemiah 10:29-39

29 join with their brothers, their nobles, ^kand enter into a curse and an oath ^lto 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. 30 ^mWe will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. 31 ⁿAnd 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 ^oseventh year and the ^pexaction of every debt.

32 “We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly ^qa third part of a shekel ^{▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams} for the service of the house of our God: 33 ^sfor the showbread, ^tthe regular grain offering, ^uthe regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. 34 ^vWe, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots ^wfor the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, ^xas it is written in the Law. 35 We obligate ourselves ^yto bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord; 36 also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, ^zas it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; 37 ^aaand to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, ^abto 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. 38 And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of ^acthe storehouse. 39 For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi ^adshall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. ^aeWe will not neglect the house of our God.”