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31 As (A)for the peoples of the land who bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not receive from them on the sabbath or a holy day; and we will forego the crops the (B)seventh year and the (C)exaction of every debt.

32 We also [a]set ourselves under the commandments to give yearly (D)one-third of a [b]shekel for the service of the house of our God: 33 for the (E)showbread, for the continual grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moon, for the appointed times, for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 10:32 Lit caused commands to stand on us, cf. Neh 4:13; 7:3; 9:2
  2. Nehemiah 10:32 A shekel was approx. 0.4 oz. or 11 gm