The People Who Sealed the Covenant
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Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
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Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
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Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
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Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
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Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests.
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and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
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Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
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Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
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Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.
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Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
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Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
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Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
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Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
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Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
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Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
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Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
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Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
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Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
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Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
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Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
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Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
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Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
The Obligations of the Covenant
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9"The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, 10and 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,
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join with their brothers, their nobles, 11and enter into a curse and an oath 12to 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.
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13We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.
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14And 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 15seventh year and the 16exaction of every debt.
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"We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly 17a third part of a shekelc for the service of the house of our God:
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18for the showbread, 19the regular grain offering, 20the 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.
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21We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots 22for 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, 23as it is written in the Law.
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We obligate ourselves 24to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD;
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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, 25as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks;
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26and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, 27to 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.
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)