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Commitments for Temple Service

32 We also obligated ourselves to contribute annually a third of a shekel[a] for services relating to the Temple of our God— 33 for the bread set out on the table,[b] for the daily grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbath offerings, for the New Moon festivals, for the appointed festivals, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the service of the Temple of our God.

34 We—the priests, the descendants of Levi, and the people—cast lots to determine when to bring the wood offering into the Temple of our God, just as our ancestors’ families were appointed annually to maintain the altar fire of the Lord our God, as recorded in the Law.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 10:32 I.e. 0.13 ounces; a shekel weighed about 0.4 ounces
  2. Nehemiah 10:33 The Heb. lacks on the table