A reading from the book of Nehemiah.

On the seals are the names of Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah, Saraya, Azariah, Jeremiah,

Pashar, Amariah, Malkaidae, Harych, Haram, Meramoth, Obadiah, Daniel, Ginathon, Berwick, Mashulam, Abijah, Midjama, Meaziah, Bilgai, Shamae,

These are the priests, and the Levites, Jesua, the son of Azanaya, Benuai of the sons of Hennedad,

Cadmiel and their brothers, Shebanaya, Haudiah, Kaleida, Palaeah, Hainan, Micah, Rehab, Hashabaya,

Zakir, Shabaya, Shabanae, Haudiah, Benainu, the chiefs of the people,

Pairosh, Pahath, Moab, Elam, Zatu, Baynai, Bunai, Asgad, Bebi, Edanijah Big Veyden, Ader, Hezekiah Azar, Hedayah Hasham, Bezai,

Harif, Anathoth, Neby, Magpash, Mashulam, Heiser, Michesabel Zadog, Judua, Pelataya, Hainanah, Hoshaya, Hananiah, Hashib, Alohesh, Pila, Shoebeck, Riam, Ashabna,

Mayasea, Anaya, Hainan, Maluk, Haram, Bayanen.

The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers,

the temple servants, and 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,

join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse, and an oath to 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. We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the

land or take their daughters for our sons, and if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any

grain on the Sabbath day to sell, 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 seventh year and the exaction of every debt. We also take on ourselves the obligation

to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God, for the showbread, the regular

grain offering, the regular burn offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feast,

the holy things and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the

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