Lev. 27:1‑34• 1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
2Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man devoteth by a vow, the persons [shall be] for Jehovah by thy valuation.
3And thy valuation shall be of the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old: even thy valuation shall be sixty shekels of silver after the shekel of the sanctuary.
4And if for a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5And if from five years old even to twenty years old, then thy valuation of the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6And if from a month old even to five years old, then thy valuation of the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female thy valuation [shall be] three shekels of silver.
7And if from sixty years old and above, if a male, then thy valuation shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female ten shekels.
8And if he be poorer than thy valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his means that vowed shall the priest value him.
9And if it be] a beast of which men offer an offering to Jehovah, all that they give of such to Jehovah shall be holy.
10They shall not alter it nor change it; a good for a bad nor a bad for a good; and if he at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
11And if any unclean beast, of which they do not offer an offering to Jehovah, then he shall present the beast before the priest;
12and the priest shall value it, between good and bad: according to thy valuation, O priest, so shall it be.
13And if they will in any wise redeem it, then they shall add a fifth thereof according to thy valuation.
14And when anyone halloweth his house, that it may be holy to Jehovah, the priest shall value it, between good and bad: as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.
15And if he that halloweth it will redeem his house, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation to it, and it shall be his.
16And if a man hallow to Jehovah out of a field of his possession, thy valuation shall be according to the seed thereof: the homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.
17If he hallow his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy valuation it shall stand;
18but if he hallow his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain until the year of the jubilee, and there shall be a reduction from thy valuation.
19And if he that hallowed the field will in any wise redeem it, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be assured to him;
20but if he do not redeem the field, or if he sell the field to another man, it cannot be redeemed anymore;
21and the field when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy to Jehovah as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
22And if he hallow to Jehovah a field that he hath bought, which [is] not the field of his possession,
23the priest shall reckon to him the amount of thy valuation unto the year of the jubilee; and he shall give thy valuation on that day, holy unto Jehovah.
24In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, to him to whom the possession of the land [belonged].
25And all thy valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
26Only the firstling among beasts, which is made a firstling to Jehovah, no man shall sanctify it: whether [it be] ox or sheep, it [is] Jehovah's.
27And if [it be] of an unclean beast, then he shall ransom [it] according to thine estimation, and shall add to it the fifth thereof; or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thine estimation.
28Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man shall devote to Jehovah of all that he hath, of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing [is] most holy to Jehovah.
29None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
30And all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, [or] of the fruit of the tree, [is] Jehovah's, holy to Jehovah.
31And if a man will redeem [aught] of his tithe, he shall add to it the fifth thereof.
32And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Jehovah.
33He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it; and if he change it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy: it shall not be redeemed.
34These [are] the commandments which Jehovah commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai. (Lev. 27:1‑34)
Neh. 9:1‑10:39• 1In the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, {i}and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.{/i}
2And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers{i}.
3{i}And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshipped Jehovah their God.{/i}
4{i}Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Jehovah their God.{/i}
5{i}And the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, said, Stand up, bless Jehovah your God from eternity to eternity. And let men bless the name of thy glory, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.{/i}
6{i}Thou art the Same, thou alone, Jehovah, who hast made the heaven of heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that is therein, the seas and all that is therein. And thou quickenest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.{/i}
7{i}Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;{/i}
8{i}and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, —to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.{/i}
9{i}And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;{/i}
10{i}and didst show signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them, and thou didst make thee a name, as it is this day.{/i}
11{i}And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry ground; and their pursuers thou threwest into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.{/i}
12{i}And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.{/i}
13{i}And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.{/i}
14{i}And thou madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.{/i}
15{i}And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.{/i}
16{i}But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,{/i}
17{i}and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.{/i}
18{i}Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation,{/i}
19{i}yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them on the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.{/i}
20{i}Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.{/i}
21{i}Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.{/i}
22{i}And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.{/i}
23{i}And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.{/i}
24{i}And the children went in and possessed the land; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.{/i}
25{i}And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, wells digged, vineyards and olive-gardens, and fruit trees in abundance. And they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.{/i}
26{i}But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.{/i}
27{i}And thou gavest them into the hand of their oppressors, and they oppressed them; and in the time of their distress, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from the heavens, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their oppressors.{/i}
28{i}But when they had rest, they did evil again before thee; and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them; and again they cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from the heavens, and many times didst thou deliver them, according to thy mercies.{/i}
29{i}And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.{/i}
30{i}And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.{/i}
31{i}Nevertheless for thy manifold mercies' sake, thou didst not make a full end of them nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.{/i}
32{i}And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the days of the kings of Assyria unto this day.{/i}
33{i}But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly.{/i}
34{i}And our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers, have not performed thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.{/i}
35{i}And they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land that thou didst set before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.{/i}
36{i}Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it.{/i}
37{i}And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress.{/i}
38{i}And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests are at the sealing.{/i}
1{i}And at the head of those that sealed were Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zedekiah.{/i}
2{i}—Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,{/i}
3{i}Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,{/i}
4{i}Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,{/i}
5{i}Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,{/i}
6{i}Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,{/i}
7{i}Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,{/i}
8{i}Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.{/i}
9{i}—And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah; Binnui, of the sons of Henadad; Kadmiel,{/i}
10{i}and their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,{/i}
11{i}Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,{/i}
12{i}Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,{/i}
13{i}Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.{/i}
14{i}—The chief of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,{/i}
15{i}Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,{/i}
16{i}Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,{/i}
17{i}Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,{/i}
18{i}Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,{/i}
19{i}Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,{/i}
20{i}Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,{/i}
21{i}Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,{/i}
22{i}Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,{/i}
23{i}Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,{/i}
24{i}Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,{/i}
25{i}Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,{/i}
26{i}and Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,{/i}
27{i}Malluch, Harim, Baanah.{/i}
28{i}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,{/i}
29{i}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;{/i}
30{i}and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:{/i}
31{i}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.{/i}
32{i}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,{/i}
33{i}for the bread to be set in rows, and for the continual oblation, and for the continual burnt-offering, for that of the Sabbaths and of the new moons, for the set feasts and for the holy things , and for the sin-offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.{/i}
34{i}And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, 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 upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law;{/i}
35{i}and to bring the firstfruits of our land, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year to the house of Jehovah,{/i}
36{i}and the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the law; and to bring the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks to the house of our God, to the priests that minister in the house of our God;{/i}
37{i}and that we should bring the firstfruits of our coarse meal and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, new wine and oil, to the priests, into the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that they, the Levites, should take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.{/i}
38{i}And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, into the chambers of the treasure-house.{/i}
39{i}For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the corn, of the new wine and the oil, into the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the doorkeepers and the singers. And we will not forsake the house of our God.{/i} (Neh. 9:1‑10:39)