New American Bible, Revised Edition

Nehemiah 10:25-33 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

25. Hallhohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

26. Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

27. Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,

28. Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

29. The rest of the people, priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all others who have separated themselves from the local inhabitants in favor of the law of God, with their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who are of the age of discretion,

30. join their influential kindred, and with the sanction of a curse take this oath to follow the law of God given through Moses, the servant of God, and to observe carefully all the commandments of the Lord, our Lord, his ordinances and his statutes.

31. We will not marry our daughters to the local inhabitants, and we will not accept their daughters for our sons.

32. When the local inhabitants bring in merchandise or any kind of grain for sale on the sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or on any other holy day. In the seventh year we will forgo the produce, and forgive every kind of debt.

33. We impose these commandments on ourselves: to give a third of a shekel each year for the service of the house of our God,