Nehemiah 9:8

8 ^aYou found his heart faithful before you, ^band made with him the covenant to give to his offspring ^cthe land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. ^dAnd you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

Nehemiah 9:26

26 ^e“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you ^fand cast your law behind their back ^gand killed your prophets, who ^hhad warned them in order to turn them back to you, ⁱand they committed great blasphemies.

Nehemiah 9:32-38

32“Now, therefore, our God, ^jthe great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, ^ksince the time of the kings of Assyria until this day. 33 ^lYet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully ^mand we have acted wickedly. 34Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them. 35Even in their own kingdom, ⁿand amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and ^orich land that you set before them, ^pthey did not serve you or turn from their wicked works. 36Behold, ^qwe are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves. 37 ^rAnd its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

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▼Ch 10:1 in Hebrew

“Because of all this ^twe make a firm covenant in writing; on ^uthe sealed document are the names of ▼

▼Hebrew lacks  the names of

our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

Nehemiah 10

The People Who Sealed the Covenant

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▼Ch 10:2 in Hebrew

^x“On the seals are the names of ▼

▼Hebrew lacks  the names of

Nehemiah ^zthe governor, ^aathe son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah, 2 ^abSeraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 3Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, 4 ^acHattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, 5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, 6Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, 7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, 8Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests. 9And the Levites: ^adJeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of ^aeHenadad, Kadmiel; 10and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 11Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, 12Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 13Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. 14The chiefs of the people: ^afParosh, 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.

The Obligations of the Covenant

28 ^ag“The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, ^ahand all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding, 29join with their brothers, their nobles, ^aiand enter into a curse and an oath ^ajto 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 ^akWe will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. 31 ^alAnd 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 ^amseventh year and the ^anexaction of every debt.

32“We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly ^aoa 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 ^aqfor the showbread, ^arthe regular grain offering, ^asthe 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 ^atWe, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots ^aufor 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, ^avas it is written in the Law. 35We obligate ourselves ^awto 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 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, ^axas it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; 37 ^ayand to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, ^azto 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 tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of ^bathe storehouse. 39For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi ^bbshall 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. ^bcWe will not neglect the house of our God.”