29 joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in the law of God which had been given by Moses the servant of God and to keep and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
31 and that if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we would not take it of them on the sabbath, or on any holy day; and that we would leave the land uncultivated the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
32 And we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God
33 for the bread to be set in rows, and for the continual oblation, and for the continual burnt-offering, for that of the sabbaths and of the new moons, for the set 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
34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God as it is written in the law;
35 and to bring the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year to the house of Jehovah,