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Nehemiah 10:32

New English Translation

We accept responsibility for fulfilling the commands to give one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple of our God,

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Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”

They had dedicated some of the plunder taken in battles to be used for repairs on the Lord’s temple.

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.

Isn’t this the way your ancestors acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!”

But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath.

Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!

You made known to them your holy Sabbath; you issued commandments, statutes, and law to them through Moses your servant.

But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Honor the Lord from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops;

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.




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