24. Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
25. Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
26. and Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
27. Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28. And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the doorkeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God their wives, their sons and their daughters, every one having knowledge and having understanding,
29. joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in the law of God which had been given by Moses the servant of God and to keep and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
30. and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
31. and that if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we would not take it of them on the sabbath, or on any holy day; and that we would leave the land uncultivated the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
32. And we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God