Obligations of the Document

28 Now (A)the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants and (B)all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all those who had knowledge and understanding, 29 are joining with their [a]kinsmen, their nobles, and are [b](C)taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given through Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of [c]God our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes; 30 and (D)that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 10:29 Lit brothers
  2. Nehemiah 10:29 Lit entering into a
  3. Nehemiah 10:29 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord