Book of Nehemiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 936

thc Priests, the Levites, the Temple wardens, the Singers, the Timbreb players; and all the remainder of the Native population under the Laws of GOD, their wives, sous and daughters, who were come to an age able to understand, declared fer themselves by their representatives and gentry, to come to Gon, and swore to walk in the Laws of GOD, which He had given by means of Mosesthe Servant of GOD, and to guard and practise all the Commands of our ALMIGHTY LQRD, with His Decrees, and Institutions. Also that we would not give our daughters to the People of the Country, and not take their daughters for our sons. And that if the population of the Country brought merchandize or any wares to sell on the Sabbath day, not to buy of them on the Sabbath, or upon a Holy Day; and to release on the Seventh year, and the interest on all loans. $ @zmpl¢ Kate §h¤pizh. We aleoimposed upon ourselves as

a law, to give the thir of a Shekel a year to the service of the House of our GOD, for the Show·bread; and for the Perpetual OH`ering, and the Peretual Burnt··oH'erinof th gg e Sab atlas; of the Months; and of the Public Meetings; and for the Sanctitications and the Sin-offering to expiate about Israel, and all the services of the House of our Gon. END or run Fmsr Exrnacr nom rmt Rom., or Eznta. (44¤ ¤·¤·> RESUMPTION OF THE SECOND 3 Mmrszripiimz Orhrrzb in Secure 11 e Qupuletimr fu: §m:sa1em.

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Wood for the Priests and Levites, which the people were to bring to the House of our Gob, from the Heads of Ancestral Families at nxed times, year by year, to be burnt on the Altar of our Even-1.1vmo Gon, as written in the Law. ‘Also to bring the Erst-fruits of

our ground, and the first product of all fruit-trees, year by year to the House of our Gon; ‘ Also the firstborn of our children,

and cattle as written in the Law; and to bring the hrstbom of our herds and our Hooks to the House of our GOD, to the Priests who serve in the House of our GOD. ‘And that the first part of our

harvest and fruit of all trees; and of wine, and oil, should be brought to the Priests who reside at the House of our GOD; with the tythe of our grounds to the Levites ;—-—and that those Levites should tythe all the profit of our labours. But that a priest a Descendant of Aaron should be with the Levites, when the Levites tythed, and that the Levites should take up a tythe of their Tythe to the House of our Evl2n—1..1vr1~:s GOD, to the Treasury Chamber. But that the Children of Israel, and the Children of Levi should bring the presenta- tions of the Corn, the Wine, and the Oil, to where the Sacred Vessels are, and the Priests, the Ministers, the Singers, and Guardians ;-—and that we would not forsake the House of NEHEMIAH’S NARRATIVE. The gentry of the people stayed in

jerusalem, and the rest of the people threw lots to send one from ten to reside in jerusalem, the Holy City, and nine to go out to the villages, and the People thanked all the men who were willing to stayin jerusalem. Gly: Garrison of jerusalem.

Now these are the Chiefs of the Garrison who stayed in jerusalem, (while in the villages of Judea each man of Israel resided on his own estate, in their towns ;)—-with the Priests, and Levites, and attendants, 35 37 39 and the descendants of the ser- vants of Solomon. But some of the 4 936