¹ Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

³⁸ Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.

¹ The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

⁹ Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Yahweh your God; don't mourn, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

⁶³ The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

⁷⁰ Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments.