Nehemiah 10

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Template:Short description Template:Bible chapter Nehemiah 10 is the tenth chapter of the Book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible,Template:Sfn or the 20th chapter of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and the book of Nehemiah as one book.Template:Sfn Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra-Nehemiah as well as the Books of Chronicles,[1] but modern scholars generally accept that a compiler from the 5th century BCE known as The Chronicler is the final author of these books.Template:Sfn The chapter contains the list of signatories to the people's pledge and the later part deals with intermarriage with the non-Jews among the "people of the land" (parallel to Ezra 10) punctuated with the pledge to separate from "foreigners".Template:Sfn

Text

The original text of this chapter is in Hebrew language. In English Bible texts this chapter is divided into 39 verses, but 40 verses in Hebrew Bible, due to a different verse numbering as follows:[2]

English texts Hebrew texts
9:38 10:1
10:1–39 10:2–40

This article generally follows the common numbering in Christian English Bible versions, with notes to the numbering in Hebrew Bible versions.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text, which includes Codex Leningradensis (1008).Template:SfnTemplate:Efn

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; 𝔊B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: 𝔊S; 4th century), and Codex Alexandrinus (A; 𝔊A; 5th century).Template:Sfn

The leaders set their seal to the pledge (10:1–27)

After the first seal from Nehemiah the governor (verse 1a), the record is carefully ordered with three lists of signatories: the priests (10:1b–8), the Levites (10:9–13) and the chiefs of the people (10:14–27).Template:Sfn Ezra the priest, who has played a leading part in the narrative on chapters 8 and 9, is not mentioned in this chapter.

Verse 1

Now those who placed their seal on the document were:
Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and
Zedekiah,[3]

Verse 3

Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,[5]

Verse 5

Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,[8]
The beginning of the se[cond] month is [on the si]xth [day] of the course of Jedaiah. On the second of the month is the Sabbath of the course of Harim....Template:Sfn

Verse 7

Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,[9]

Verse 8

Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.[11]

Stipulations of the pledge (10:28–39)

The pledge contains the general affirmation involving the whole community (verses 28–29; cf. Ezra 9–10) and particular obligations 'which they lay upon themselves' (verses 30–39), in relation to intermarriage (verse 30), to the Sabbath and sabbatical year (verse 31), and to the provision for the upkeep of the Temple and clergy (verses 32–Template:Bibleverse).Template:Sfn The wording can be traced to the Book of Deuteronomy, such as "to walk in God's law" (cf. Template:Bibleverse) and "to observe and do all the commandments" (cf. Template:Bibleverse). Template:Sfn

Verse 29

These joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes.[13]

The "curse" is the penalty which they invoked if they were faithless to the covenant, the "oath" is the solemn obligation of a duty which they vowed to perform: the oath recalls the wording of Template:Bibleverse, enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today.[14]

Verse 32

Also 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;[15]
  • "Made ordinances for us": Hebrew "cause to stand on us," NET Bible: "accept responsibility for fulfilling the commands".[16]
  • "To charge ourselves": Hebrew MT reads "to give upon us", but the term Template:Lang (ʿalenu, "upon us") is not found in a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate; NET Bible: "to give".[17]
  • "Shekel": was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams.[18]
  • "House" (as in Hebrew): refers to the "temple" (also in Template:Bibleverse).[19]

See also

Notes

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References

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Sources

Further reading

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  1. ↑ Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 15a, apud Fensham 1982, p. 2
  2. ↑ Note [a] on Nehemiah 9:38 in NET Bible
  3. ↑ Template:Bibleref2 NKJV
  4. ↑ Note [a] on Nehemiah 10:1 in NKJV
  5. ↑ Template:Bibleref2 NKJV
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. 1 Chronicles 24. Accessed 28 April 2019.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Urbach, Ephraim E., Mishmarot u-maʻamadot, Tarbiz (A Quarterly for Jewish Studies) 42, Jerusalem 1973, pp. 304–327 (Hebrew); Rainer Degen, An Inscription of the Twenty-Four Priestly Courses from the Yemen, pub. in: Tarbiẕ - A Quarterly for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 1973, pp. 302–303
  8. ↑ Template:Bibleverse KJV
  9. ↑ Template:Bibleverse KJV
  10. ↑ Note [a] on Nehemiah 12:5 in NKJV
  11. ↑ Template:Bibleverse KJV
  12. ↑ Ellicott, C. J. (Ed.) (1905). Ellicott's Bible Commentary for English Readers. 1 Chronicles 24. London : Cassell and Company, Limited, [1905-1906] Online version: (OCoLC) 929526708. Accessed 28 April 2019.
  13. ↑ Template:Bibleverse
  14. ↑ Ryle, H. E., Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Nehemiah 10, accessed 14 September 2020
  15. ↑ Template:Bibleverse KJV
  16. ↑ Note [a] on Nehemiah 10:32 in NET Bible
  17. ↑ Note [b] on Nehemiah 10:32 in NET Bible
  18. ↑ Note [a] on Nehemiah 10:32 in ESV
  19. ↑ Note [c] on Nehemiah 10:32 in NET Bible
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