29 joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a
curse and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was
given by Moses the servant of God, and to
observe and do all the commandments of
Yahweh 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 if the peoples of the land bring
wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to
sell, that we would not buy from them on
the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we
would forego the seventh year crops and
the exaction of every debt.

32 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the
third part of a shekel† for the service of the
house of our God:

33 for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt
offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new
moons, for the set feasts, for the holy
things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the
house of our God.

34 We, the priests, the Levites, and the
people, cast lots for the wood offering, to
bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times
appointed year by year, to burn on Yahweh
our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;

35 and to bring the first fruits of our
ground and the first fruits of all fruit of all
kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s
house;

36 also the firstborn of our sons and of
our livestock, as it is written in the law,
and the firstborn of our herds and of our
flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to
the priests who minister in the house of
our God;

37 and that we should bring the first
fruits of our dough, our wave offerings,the
fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine
and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of
the house of our God; and the tithes of our
ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites,
take the tithes in all our farming villages.

38 The priest, the descendent of Aaron,
shall be with the Levites when the Levites
take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the
tithe of the tithes to the house of our God,
to the rooms, into the treasure house.

39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi
shall bring the wave offering of the grain,
of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms where the vessels of the
sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers.
We will not forsake the house of our God.