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2 The names of them that sealed the covenant between God and the people.

1.Now thei that sealed were Nehemiáh the ^Tirshátha the sonne of Hachaliáh, and Zidkijáh,

2.Seraiáh, Azariáh, Jeremiáh,

3.Pashúr, Amariáh, Malchiáh,

4.Hattúsh, Shebaniáh, Mallúch,

5.Harím, Merimóth, Obadiáh,

6.Daniél, Ginnethón, Barúch,

7.Meshullám, Abijáh, Miamím,

8.Maaziáh, Bilgái, Shemaiáh: these are ^athe Priests.

9.¶ And the Levites: Jeshúa the sonne of Azaniáh, Binnúi, of the sonnes of Henadád Kadmiél.

10.And their brethren, Shebaniáh, Hodijáh, Kelitá, Pelaiáh, Hanán,

11.Michá, Rehób, Hashabiáh,

12.Zaccúr, Sherebiáh, Shebaniáh,

13.Hodiáh, Baní, Beninu.

14.¶ The chief of the people were Parósh, ^Paháth Moáb, Elám, Zattú, Baní,

15.Bunní, Azgád, Bebái,

16.Adoniáh, Biguái, Adín,

17.Atér, Hizkijáh, Azzúr, The covenant sealed. Nehem

18.Hodiáh, Hashúm, Bezái,

19.Haríph, Anathóth, Nebái,

20.Magpiásh, Meshullám, Hezír,

21.Meshezabeél, Zadók, Jaddúa,

22.Pelatiáh, Hanán, Anaiáh,

23.Hoshéa, Hananiáh, Hashúb,

24.Hallohésh, Pilehá, Shobék,

25.Rehúm, Hashabnáh, Maaseiáh,

26.And Ahijáh, Hanán, Anán,

27.Mallúch, Harím, Baaniáh.

28.And the rest of the people, the Priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the ^bNethinims, & all that were ^cseparated from the people of the lands unto the Law of God, their wives, their sonnes, & their daughters, all that could understand.

29.The chief of them ^dreceived it for their brethren, and they came to ^ethe curse and to the othe to walk in God’s Law, which was given by Mosés the servant of God, to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our God and his judgements and his statutes:

30.And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nether take their daughters for our sonnes.

31.And if the people of the land broght ware on the Sabbath or anie vitailes to sell, ^fthat we wolde not take it of them on the Sabbath and on the holy dayes: *and that we wolde let the sevent yere be fre, and the debtes of everie ^persone.

32.And we made statutes for our selves to give by the year the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God,

33.For the ^gshewebread, and for the daiely offring, and for the daiely burnt offring, the Sabbaths, the newe moones, for the solemne feastes, and for the things that were sanctified, and for the sinne offrings to make an atonement for Israél, and for all the worke of the house of our God.

34.We cast also lottes for the offring of the wood, even the Priests, the Levites and the people to bring it into the house of our God, ^by the house of our fathers, yerely at the times appointed, to burne it upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is writen in the Law,

35.And to bring the first frutes of our land, and the first of all the frutes of all trees, yere by yere, into the house of the Lord,

36.And the firstborne of our sonnes, and of our cattel, as it is ^hwriten in the Law, and the firstborne of our bullockes and of our shepe, to bring it into the house of our God, unto the Priests that minister in the house of our God,

37.And that we shulde bring the first frute of our dough, and our offrings, and the frute of everie tre, of wine and of oyle, unto the Priests, to the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our land unto the Levites, that the Levites iah First frutes. might have the tithes in all the cities, of our ⁱtravail.

38.And the Priest, the sonne of Aarón shal be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes, and the Levites shal *bring up the tenth parte of the tithes unto the house of our God, unto the chambers of the treasure house.

39.For the children of Israél, and the children of Leví shal bring up the offrings of the corn, of the wine, and of the oyle, unto the chambers: and there shalbe the vessels of the Sanctuarie, and the Priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers, & ^kwe wil not forsake the house of our God.

Nehemiah 10

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