Nehemiah 10

1 And with those whose seal was affixed were, Nehemiah the Tirshatha the son of Chachalyah, and Zidkiyah.

Forsothe the seeleris weren Neemye, Athersata, the sone of Achilai,

2 [Then] Serayah, 'Azaryah, Jeremiah,

and Sedechie, Saraie, Azarie, Jeremye, Phasur,

3 Pashchui, Amaryah, Malkiyah,

Amarie, Melchie,

4 Chattush, Shebanyah, Malluch,

Accus, Sebenye,

5 Charim, Meremoth, 'Obadiah,

Mellucarem, Nerymuth, Oddie, Danyel,

6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

Genton, Baruc, Mosollam, Abia,

7 Meshullam, Abiyah, Miyamin,

Mianymy, Mazie, Belga, and Semeie;

8 Ma'azyah, Bilgai, Shema'yah: these were the priests.

these weren prestis.

9 And the Levites: Jeshua' the son of Azanyah, Binnui [[of]] the sons of Chenadad, Kadmiel;

Forsothe dekenes weren Josue, the sone of Azarie, Bennuy, of the sones of Ennadab,

10 And their brethren, Shebanyah, Hodiyah, Kelita, Palayah, Chanan,

Cedinyel, and hise britheren, Sethenye, Odenmye, Telita, Phalaie, Anam,

11 Micha, Rechob, Chashabyah,

Myca, Roob, Asebie

12 Zaccur, Sherebyah, Shebanyah,

Zaccur, Serebie, Sabanye,

13 Hodiyah, Bani, Beninu.

Odias, Bany, Hamyn.

14 The chiefs of the people: Par'osh, Pachath-moab, 'Elam, Zatthu, Bani,

The heedis of the puple, Phetos, Moab, Elam,

15 Bunni, 'Azgad, Bebai,

Zecu, Banny, Bonny, Azgad, Bebay,

16 Adoniyah, Bigvai, 'Adin,

Donai, Bogoia, Adyn,

17 Ater, Chizkiyah, 'Azzur,

Ather, Azochie, Azur,

18 Hodiyah, Chashum, Bezai,

Odenye, Assuyn, Bessaie,

19 Chariph, 'Anathoth, Nebai,

Ares, Anatoth, Nebai,

20 Magpi'ash, Meshullam, Chezir,

Methpie, Mosollam, Azir,

21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua',

Meizabel, Sadoch, Reddua,

22 Pelatyah, Chanan, 'Anayah,

Pheltie, Ananye, Osee,

23 Hoshea', Chanayah, Chasshub,

Anaie, Azub, Aloes,

24 Hallochesh, Pilcha, Shobek,

Phaleam, Sobeth,

25 Rechum, Chashabnah, Ma'asseyah,

Reu, Asebyne, Mathsie,

26 And Achiyah, Chanan, 'Anan,

Ethaie, Anam,

27 Malluch, Charim, Ba'anah.

Mellucarem, Baana;

28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gate-keepers, the singers, the temple-servants, and all those that had separated themselves from the nations of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding,

and othere of the puple, prestis, dekenes, porteris, and syngeris, Natynneis, and alle men that departiden hem silf fro the puplis of londis to the lawe of God, the wyues of hem, and `the sones of hem, and the douytris of hem;

29 Held firmly with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given through means of Moses the servant of God, and to observe and to do all the commandments of the Eternal One, our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

alle that myyten vndurstonde, bihetynge for her britheren, the principal men of hem, `and thei that camen to biheete, and to swere, that thei schulden go in the lawe of the Lord, which he `hadde youe bi the hond of Moyses, his seruaunt, that thei schulden do and kepe alle the heestis of `oure Lord God, and hise domes, and hise cerymonyes; and that we schulden not yyue

30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

oure douytris to the puple of the lond, and that we schulden not take her douytris to oure sones.

31 And that if the people of the land should bring wares or any provisions on the sabbath day to sell, we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on [another] holy day; and that we would leave [the fields without reaping in] the seventh year, and [give up] every loan of hand.

Also the puplis of the lond, `that bryngen in thingis set to sale, and alle thingis to vss, bi the dai of sabat, for to sille, we schulen not take of hem in the sabat, and in a dai halewid; and we schulen leeue the seuenthe yeer, and the axynge of al hond.

32 And we established for us as one of the commandments to impose on ourselves [to give] the third part of a shekel in every year for the service of the house of our God;

And we schulen ordeyne comaundementis `on vs, that we yyue the thridde part of a sicle `bi the yeer to the werk of `oure Lord God,

33 For the shew-bread, and for the continual meat-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, [for those of] the sabbaths, of the new-moons, for the appointed feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and [for] all the work of the house of our God.

to the looues of settyngforth, and to the euerlastynge sacrifice, `and in to brent sacrifice euerlastynge, in sabatis, in calendis, `that is, bigynnyngis of monethis, in solempnytees, in halewid daies, and for synne, that `me preie for Israel, and in to al the vss of the hows of oure God.

34 And we, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots concerning the procuring of the wood, to bring it into the house of our God, unto the house of our fathers, at fixed times, year by year, to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law;

`Therfor we senten `lottis on the offryng of trees, bitwixe prestis and dekenes and the puple, that tho schulden be brouyt in to the hows of oure God, bi the housis of oure fadris bi tymes, fro the tymes of a yeer `til to a yeer, that `tho schulden brenne on the auter of `oure Lord God, as it is writun in the lawe of Moyses;

35 And to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the Lord;

and that we bringe the firste gendrid thingis of oure lond, and the firste fruytis of al fruyt of ech tree, fro yeer in to yeer,

36 And also the first-born of our sons, and for our [unclean] cattle, as it is written in the law, and to bring the first-born of our herds and of our flocks to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God;

in to the hows of the Lord, and the firste gendrid thingis of oure sones, and of oure beestis, as it is writun in the lawe, and the firste gendrid thingis of oure oxis, and of oure scheep, that tho be offrid in the hows of oure God, to prestis that mynystren in the hows of oure God;

37 And that we would bring the first portion of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and this of the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, unto the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; and that these same Levites should be the receivers of the tithes in all the cities of our land-tillage;

and we schulen brynge the firste fruytis of oure metis, and of oure moiste sacrifices, and the applis of ech tre, and of vendage, and of oile, to `prestis, at the treserie of the Lord, and the tenthe part of oure lond to dekenes; thilke dekenes schulen take tithis of alle the citees of oure werkis.

38 And that the priest the son of Aaron should be with the Levites, when the Levites receive the tithes; and that the Levites should bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house.

Sotheli a prest, the sone of Aaron, schal be with the dekenes in the tithis of dekenes; and the dekenes schulen offre the tenthe part of her tithe in the hows of oure God, `at the tresorie, in the hows of tresour.

39 For into the chambers shall the children of Israel and the children of Levi bring the heave-offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, and there shall be the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the gatekeepers, and the singers: and that we will not forsake the house of our God.

For the sones of Israel and the sones of Leuy schulen brynge the firste fruytis of wheete, of wiyn, and of oile; and halewid vessels schulen be there, and prestis, and syngeris, and porteris, and mynystris; and we schulen not forsake the hows of `oure God.