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Nehemiah 10:32

English Standard Version 2016

“We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

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and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

From spoil won in battles they dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the house of the Lord.

Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.

and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.

In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.

Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.




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