Nechemyah 10 נחמיה י׳

And with all this [i.e., notwithstanding all this evil that has come upon us], we are making a covenant and writing it down [(to accept His kingdom over us, so that it serve as witness)], and for the signatories, our leaders, our Levites, and our priests.

And the signatories [(for the acceptance of the mitzvoth, the majority of our dignitaries)]: Nechemiah-Hatirshatha the son of Chachalyah and Tzidkiyah.

Serayah, Azaryah, Yirmiyah.

Pashchur, Amaryah, Malkiyah.

Catush, Shevanyah, Maluch.

Charim, Meremoth, Ovadyah.

Daniel, Ginthon, Baruch.

Meshulam, Aviyah, Miyamin.

Ma'azyah, Bilgai, Shemayah — these are the priests.

And the Levites — Veyeshua the son of Azanyah, Binui of the sons of Chenadad, Kadmiel.

And their brethren, Shevanyah, Hodiysh, Kelita, Pelayah, Chanan.

Micha, Rechov, Chashavyah.

Zakkur, Sherevyah, Shevanyah.

Hodiyah, Bani, Beninu.

The heads of the people: Parosh, the governor of Moav, Eilam, Zatu, Bani.

Buni, Azgad, Bevai.

Adoniyah, Bigvai, Adin.

Ater, Chizkyah, Azur.

Hodiyah, Chusham, Betzai.

Charif, Anathoth, Nevai.

Magpiash, Meshulam, Chezir.

Meshezavel, Tzaddok, Yadua.

Pelatyah, Chanan, Anayah.

Hoshea, Chananyah, Chashuv.

Halochesh, Pilcha, Shovek.

Rechum, Chashavnah, Ma'aseyah.

Va'achiyah, Chanan, Anan.

Maluch, Charim, Ba'anah.

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all [the proselytes] who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the Torah of G-d, their wives, their sons, their daughters — all who were possessed of understanding —

confirmed [the covenant of] their brethren, their dignitaries, and they undertook with oath and vow to walk in the Torah of G d that had been given by the hand of Moses, the servant of G d, and to keep and do all the mitzvoth of the L-rd, our Master, and His mitzvoth and His statutes,

and not to give our daughters to the people of the land, and not to take their daughters for our sons,

and not to purchase on Sabbath or holy day from the peoples of the land who bring merchandise and all (kinds of) produce to sell on the Sabbath, and to let the land lie fallow on the seventh year [viz. Exodus 23:11] and [to relinquish] every claim [viz. Deuteronomy 15:2].

And we took upon ourselves as mitzvoth to give for ourselves a third of a shekel a year [(beyond the prescribed half-shekel [viz. Exodus 30:13])] for the service of the house of our G-d:

for the show bread and the perpetual oblation and the perpetual burnt-offering and the [offerings for] the Sabbaths, the New Moons, the festivals, and the [communal] (peace-) offerings and sin-offerings to atone for Israel, and for all the [silver] work of the house of our G-d.

And we cast lots for the offering of wood [for the altar] — the priests, the Levites, and the people — to bring to the house of our G d, the house of [holiness] of our fathers, (to bring it) at set times, year by year, to burn on the altar of the L-rd our G d, as written in the Torah.

And [we undertook] to bring the first-fruits of our land and the first-fruits of all fruit-trees year by year to the house of our L-rd [(the latter, a rabbinical enactment)]

and (to bring) the [redemption monies] of our first-born sons and of our beasts [i.e., first-born of asses], as written in the Torah, and the first-born of our cattle and of our flocks, to bring (them) to the house of our G-d, to the priests who serve in the house of our G-d,

and to bring the first of our dough and our tithes and the fruit of every tree, wine and oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our G-d, and (to bring) the tithe of our land to the Levites, the Levites who take their tithes in all the cities of our work [(in Eretz Israel)].

And [we undertook that] a priest, a son [i.e., descendant] of Aaron be with the Levites, when the Levites tithed. And the Levites would bring a tithe of the tithe to the house of our G-d to the chambers [(of the priests, [who would not leave the Temple])], to the store-house.

For to the chambers the sons of Israel and the sons of the Levites would bring the tithe of the grain, the wine, and the oil. And there were found the Temple vessels, and the ministering priests, and the gatekeepers and the singers — so that we not forsake the house of our G-d.