1Now those who affixed their seal (to the aforementioned document) were: Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, son of Hacaliah; Zedekiah; 2Seraiah; Azariah; Jeremiah; 3Pashhur; Amariah; Malchijah; 4Hattush; Shebaniah; Malluch; 5Harim; Meremoth; Obadiah; 6Daniel; Ginnethon; Baruch; 7Meshullam; Abijah; Mijamin; 8Maaziah; Bilgai; Shemaiah. These were the priests.

9And of the Levites: Jeshua, son of Azaniah; Binnui, of the family of Henadad; Kadmiel; 10And their fellow Levites, Shebaniah; Hodiah; Kelita; Pelaiah; Hanan; 11Micha; Rehob; Hashabiah; 12Zaccur; Sherebiah; Shebaniah; 13Hodiah; Bani; and Beninu.

14The leaders of the people were: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, 15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 16Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, 18Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, 19Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, 20Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 21Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, 22Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 23Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub, 24Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, 25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, 26Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, 27Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.

28And the rest of the people - the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, the Nethinim (temple servants), and all they who had separated themselves from the pagan people of the lands for the sake of the law of God, together with their wives, sons, and daughters, all those who had knowledge and understanding - 29All these now joined with their fellow Israelites, their nobles, and bound themselves with a curse, and an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, to keep and observe all the commandments of our LORD, and His ordinances and statutes; 30That they would not give their daughters (as wives) to the pagan people of the land, nor take their daughters (as wives) for their sons. 31And if the people of the land bring merchandise or produce on the Sabbath day to sell, that they would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that they would forego raising crops during the seventh year, and forego the exaction of interest on debts. 32And promised to obey the ordinance to contribute yearly with a third of a shekel for the service (expenses) of the Temple of our God, 33For the showbread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, of the Sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the Temple of our God. 34And they also cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for contributing the wood offering, to bring it into the house of God, according to the households of their fathers, at set times year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD, their God, as it is written in the law; 35And to bring the first fruit of their crops, and of the fruit trees, year by year, to the Temple of the LORD. 36Also, as it is written in the law, to bring the first-born of their sons, and of their cattle, and the firstborn of their herds and of our flocks, to the Temple of our God, to the priests who minister in the Temple of our God; 37And that they would bring the first of their ground meal or flour, grain offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the Temple of their God; and the tithes of their ground to the Levites, that the Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of their tillage. 38And the priest descended from Aaron, shall accompany the Levites, when they receive the tithes; and the Levites shall bring their tithe of the tithes unto the Temple of their God, to the chambers, into the treasure house. 39For the descendants of Israel and the descendants of Levi shall bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine, and the oil, to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, for the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers, and the singers; and promise they will not neglect the Temple of their God.