Catholic Public Domain Version
"And we established precepts over ourselves, so that we would give one third part of a shekel each year for the work of the house of our God, "
— Nehemiah 10:32, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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;”
“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; ”
“Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;”
“We accept responsibility for fulfilling the commands to give one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple of our God,”
“And we made ordinances for ourselves, to give the third part of a sicle every year for the work of the house of our God,”
“And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God;”
“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;”
All who were able to understand, pledged on behalf of their brothers, with their nobles, and they came forward to promise and to swear that they would walk in the law of God, which he had given to the hand of Moses, the servant of God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our God, and his judgments and his ceremonies,
and that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, and that we would not accept their daughters for our sons,
also that, if the people of the land carry in goods for sale or any useful things, so that they might sell them on the day of the Sabbath, that we would not buy them on the Sabbath, nor on a sanctified day, and that we would release the seventh year and the collection of debt from every hand.
And we established precepts over ourselves, so that we would give one third part of a shekel each year for the work of the house of our God,
for the bread of the presence, and for the continual sacrifice, and for a continual holocaust on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, on the solemnities, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering, so that atonement would be made for Israel, and for every use within the house of our God.
Then we cast lots concerning the oblation of the wood among the priests, and the Levites, and the people, so that it would be carried into the house of our God, by the households of our fathers, at set times, from the times of one year to another, so that they might burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, just as it was written in the law of Moses,
and so that we might bring in the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of all the produce from every tree, from year to year, in the house of our Lord,