1 Those who sealed it were Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah; 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, 4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, 5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, 6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, 7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, 8 Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

9 The Levites were Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui from the descendants of Henadad, Kadmiel, 10 and their brothers Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 13 Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.

14 The heads of the people were Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, 18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, 20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, 22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, 24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, 25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, 26 Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, 27 Malluch, Harim, and Baanah. 28 The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to follow the Law of God, together with their wives, sons, and daughters, all who had knowledge and understanding— 29 joined their brothers, their nobles, and bound themselves with a curse and an oath to walk in the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God, and to keep and carry out all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, his ordinances and his statutes: 30 “We will not give our daughters in marriage to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. 31 When the peoples of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. We will leave the land fallow in the seventh year and forgo collection of every debt. 32 We have also placed ourselves under an obligation to give about one-eighth of an ounce of silver each year for the service of the house of our God: 33 for the bread of the Presence, the regular grain offering and regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed festivals, the holy things, the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

34 We—the priests, the Levites, and the people—have cast lots concerning the wood offering, to bring it to the house of our God by our ancestral families at appointed times year after year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law. 35 We will bring the firstfruits of our soil and the firstfruits of every kind of fruit from every tree to the house of the LORD year after year. 36 We will also bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who serve in the house of our God. 37 We will bring the first of our dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, new wine, and oil to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our soil to the Levites. It is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we farm. 38 A priest, a descendant of Aaron, will be with the Levites when they collect the tithes. The Levites will bring a tithe of the tithes up to the house of our God, to the chambers in the storehouse. 39 For the Israelites and the descendants of Levi will bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the chambers. There are the sanctuary utensils, the serving priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.”