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Now the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the templeservants and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all those who hadknowledge and understanding,
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are joining with their kinsmen, their nobles, and are taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God'slaw, which was giventhroughMoses, God'sservant, and to keep and to observeall the commandments of GOD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes;
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As for the peoples of the land who bringwares or anygrain on the sabbathday to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or a holyday; and we will forego the crops the seventhyear and the exaction of everydebt.
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for the showbread*, for the continual grain offering, for the continualburntoffering, the sabbaths, the newmoon, for the appointedtimes, for the holythings and for the sinofferings to makeatonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.
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Likewise we castlots for the supply of wood among the priests, the Levites and the people so that they might bring it to the house of our God, according to our fathers'households, at fixedtimesannually, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law;
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and bring to the house of our God the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks as it is written in the law, for the priests who are ministering in the house of our God.
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We will also bring the first of our dough, our contributions, the fruit of everytree, the newwine and the oil to the priests at the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to the Levites, for the Levites are they who receive the tithes in all the ruraltowns.
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The priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levitesreceivetithes, and the Levites shall bring up the tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.
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For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of the grain, the newwine and the oil to the chambers; there are the utensils of the sanctuary, the priests who are ministering, the gatekeepers and the singers. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.