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And the rest of the people,.... That did not sign and seal: the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims; the porters and singers were Levites; but those so called were such as waited upon the priests, as the Nethinims were persons that waited on them: and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands...

Nehemiah 10:29

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They clave to their brethren, their nobles,.... Who had signed and sealed the covenant, they declared their approbation of it, attended to it, and ratified what they had done in their name: and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God; they bound themselves with an oath that they...

Nehemiah 10:30

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And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons,.... Intermarry with them as they had done, and were prone to do, and even did after this, Ne 13:23.

Nehemiah 10:31

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And if the people of the land bring ware,.... Any thing to be sold, any sort of goods, that being sold might be taken away, as the word signifies; or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell; anything to make food of; wheat or barley, as Aben Ezra interprets it; the same word is rendered corn, [See comments on Genesis 42:1]; to sell which was not...

Nehemiah 10:32

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Also we made ordinance, for us,.... Laws among themselves, binding them to that which the laws of God did not: to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel, for the service of the house of our God; the particulars of which follow in the next verse; for the defraying of which there used to be a treasury in the temple; but now there...

Nehemiah 10:33

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For the shewbread,.... To defray the expenses of the twelve loaves, which every week were set on the table of shewbread, Leviticus 24:5, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering; for the daily sacrifice, morning and evening, which always had a meat offering along with it, Exodus 29:38, of the sabbaths, and of the...

Nehemiah 10:34

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And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people,.... The priests and Levites were in one lot, and the people in another, as Aben Ezra: for the wood offering; for providing wood to burn upon the altar continually, concerning which Maimonides (c) thus writes: "what is the wood offering? there was a time fixed for families to go...

Nehemiah 10:35

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And to bring the firstfruits of our ground,.... Not that they cast lots to do this, but they bound themselves with an oath, according to the law, to do it; this is the first of all the fruits of the earth, Exodus 23:19, though Aben Ezra restrains it to the sheaf of the firstfruits, and to the two wave loaves, Leviticus 23:10, and the firstfruits...

Nehemiah 10:36

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Also the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle,.... Such as were unclean, as Aben Ezra notes, as the ass, c. and are distinguished from clean ones mentioned in the following clause now both these, their sons, and this sort of cattle, were to be redeemed by a price paid to the priests: as it is written in the law, Exodus 13:2, and the firstlings...

Nehemiah 10:37

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And that we should bring the first fruits of our dough,.... According to the law in Numbers 15:20 and our offerings; their heave offerings, Numbers 18:8 and the fruit of all manner of trees; bore by them on the fourth year after their planting, Leviticus 19:23 of wine and oil; to which Aben Ezra restrains the fruit of the trees, see Numbers 18:12,...

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