joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into 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 Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
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The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding— joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into 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 Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
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joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into 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 Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
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They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into 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 judgments and his statutes;
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
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(10-30) they cleaved to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into 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;
(10-31) and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
(10-32) and if the peoples of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
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- Deuteronomy 7:3 (v30) You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
- Exodus 34:16 (v30) and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the…
- Leviticus 23:3 (v31) “ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is…
- Nehemiah 13:15-22 (v31) In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine,…
- Exodus 23:10-11 (v31) “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that…
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- Ezekiel 36:27 (v29) I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
- Ezra 9:1-3 (v30) Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not…
- Psalms 119:106 (v29) I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
- Exodus 20:10 (v31) but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male…
- Ezra 9:12-14 (v30) Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity…
- Ezra 10:10-12 (v30) Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel. Now…
- John 15:14 (v29) You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
- Titus 2:11-14 (v29) For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,…
- 2 Kings 23:3 (v29) The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and…
- 2 Chronicles 34:31 (v29) The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies,…
- Nehemiah 5:12-13 (v29) Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and…
- Jeremiah 17:21-22 (v31) Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. Don’t carry a burden out of…
- Romans 12:9 (v29) Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
- Exodus 12:16 (v31) In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in…
- Leviticus 16:29 (v31) “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no…
- Leviticus 23:21 (v31) You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute…
- Leviticus 23:35-36 (v31) On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.…
- Leviticus 25:1-7 (v31) Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai, “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then…
- Deuteronomy 5:1 (v29) Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may…
- Deuteronomy 5:12-14 (v31) “Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. You shall labor six days, and do all your work; but the…
- Deuteronomy 5:32 (v29) You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
- Deuteronomy 15:1-3 (v31) At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has…
- Deuteronomy 15:7-9 (v31) If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not…
- Deuteronomy 27:15-26 (v29) ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up…
- Deuteronomy 29:12-14 (v29) that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today, that he may…
- Deuteronomy 33:4 (v29) Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
- 2 Kings 10:31 (v29) But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with…
- 2 Chronicles 6:16 (v29) “Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall…
- 2 Chronicles 15:13-14 (v29) and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. They swore…
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 (v31) to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to…
- Nehemiah 5:1-13 (v31) Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. For there were some who said, “We, our sons…
- Nehemiah 13:25 (v29) I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not…
- Psalms 8:1 (v29) Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!
- Psalms 8:9 (v29) Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
- Psalms 105:45 (v29) that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
- Isaiah 14:1 (v29) For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with…
- Isaiah 58:6 (v31) “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free,…
- Isaiah 58:13-14 (v31) “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of…
- Jeremiah 26:4 (v29) You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
- Malachi 4:4 (v29) “Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
- John 1:17 (v29) For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
- John 7:19 (v29) Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
- Acts 11:23 (v29) who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to…
- Acts 17:34 (v29) But certain men joined with him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
- Acts 23:12-15 (v29) When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until…
- Acts 23:21 (v29) Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor…
- Matthew 6:12 (v31) Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
- Matthew 18:27-35 (v31) The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. “But that servant went out, and found one of…
- Colossians 2:16 (v31) Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv29, 31 They made the oath in the name of the…
They made the oath in the name of the whole multitude.
Whereunto they gave themselves if they brake the Law, as Deut. 28:15.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv29–31 Neh 10:29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles,…
Neh 10:29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into 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 judgments and his statutes;
Ver. 29. They clave to their brethren] Heb. They laid fast hold on them, viz. by taking hold of the covenant, to keep the Sabbath from polluting it, and choosing the things that please God, as Isa 56:4; Isa 56:6.
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And entered into a curse] The more to confirm the oath, and to keep their deceitful hearts close to God. See Deu 29:12; Deu 29:21. This is called the oath of God, Ecc 7:2. Confer Isa 19:18; Isa 44:5; 2Ch 15:12; 2Ch 15:14; 2Ch 34:31.
To walk in God’s law] Ex gnomone et canone decalogi, to walk accurately and exactly by line and by rule (Aug. in Exod.). "In all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless," Luk 1:6, so far as by his grace he should vouchsafe to assist them. For lex iubet, gratia iuvat. The law orders, grace assists. The bowls of the candlestick have no oil but what droppeth from the olive branches. David can wish well to the keeping of God’s commandments diligently, Psa 119:4-5, but promise no further than God shall please to enlarge his heart, Neh 10:32. Vows and covenants indefinitely and absolutely made (as that of Jephthah, Jdg 11:31) prove a snare. Condition with the Lord for his strength and grace; rely not on thine own sufficiency, lest it repent thee of thy rashness and self-confidence, as it befell Peter. Consider that thou art but a poor garrison soldier; and without supplies of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, Php 1:19, thou canst do nothing. David knew this, and therefore called earnestly for help from heaven, Psa 51:13-15; Psa 119:106-107.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv29–31 They clave to their brethren; they owned and ratified…
They clave to their brethren; they owned and ratified what the others had done in their names, declaring their assent to it by their words, or by the lifting up of their hands, as the manner was.
Into an oath, i.e. an oath bound with a curse or imprecation upon themselves, in case they violated it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv29–31 They clave to their brethren, their nobles,.... Who had…
They clave to their brethren, their nobles,.... Who had signed and sealed the covenant, they declared their approbation of it, attended to it, and ratified what they had done in their name:
and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God; they bound themselves with an oath that they would keep the law of God, and added a curse or imprecation on themselves to it should they break it; or, according to Piscator, they went into the space between the two pieces of the calf, which they cut asunder for the confirmation of the covenant, and so they cursed themselves if they should break it, see Jer 34:18
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and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our God, and his judgments and his statutes; all the laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial; this they engaged to do in general; some particulars follow.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv29, 31 Their nobles - The commonality agreed with the nobles…
Their nobles - The commonality agreed with the nobles in this good work, great men never look so great, as when they encourage religion and are examples of it: and they would by that, as much as any thing, make an interest in the most valuable of their inferiors, who would cleave to them closer than they can imagine. Observe their nobles are called their brethren; for in the things of God, rich and poor, high and low meet together. They cleave - They ratified what the others had done in their names, declaring their assent to it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv29–31 Verse 29. They clave to their brethren] Though they…
Verse 29. They clave to their brethren] Though they did not sign this instrument, yet they bound themselves under a solemn oath that they would fulfil the conditions of the covenant, and walk according to the law of Moses.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv29–31 Neh 10:29. They clave to their brethren, their nobles…
Neh 10:29. They clave to their brethren, their nobles — The commonalty owned and ratified what the nobles had done in their names, declaring their assent to it by their words, or by lifting up of their hands, as the manner was. Great men never look so great as when they encourage religion, and are examples of it: and they would by that, as much as any thing, make an interest in the most valuable of their inferiors, who would cleave to them closer than they can imagine. Observe, their nobles are called their brethren; for in the things of God, rich and poor, high and low, meet together. And entered into a curse, and into an oath — That is, an oath under an execration. They obliged themselves by an oath to walk in God’s law, with an imprecation upon themselves, if they violated it; wishing, probably, that all the curses written in the law might fall upon them, if they did not observe it in all things.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v31 Bring ware ... on the sabbath day - Compare…
Bring ware ... on the sabbath day - Compare Neh 13:16, where this desecration of the Sabbath is shown to have commonly taken place.
Leave the seventh year ... - i. e., “let the land rest in the sabbatical year” (margin reference) and give up the “pledge-taking” Neh 10:2-10.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv29–31 Understand. Hebrew mebin, "the teachers," or Levites, 1 Esdras…
Understand. Hebrew mebin, "the teachers," or Levites, 1 Esdras viii. 16. (Menochius) --- Promising. Hebrew, "clave to their brethren;" and they promised with a curse to transgressors, and with an oath to walk, &c. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v29 POINTS OF THE COVENANT. (Neh 10:29-39)
POINTS OF THE COVENANT. (Neh 10:29-39)
to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that they abstain from contracting matrimonial alliances with the heathen; that they would rigidly observe the sabbath; that they would let the land enjoy rest and remit debts every seventh year; that they would contribute to the maintenance of the temple service, the necessary expenses of which had formerly been defrayed out of the treasury of the temple (Ch1 26:20), and when it was drained, given out from the king's privy purse (Ch2 31:3); and that they would make an orderly payment of the priests' dues. A minute and particular enumeration of the first-fruits was made, that all might be made fully aware of their obligations, and that none might excuse themselves on pretext of ignorance from withholding taxes which the poverty of many, and the irreligion of others, had made them exceedingly prone to evade.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv29, 31 29. Entered into a curse, and into an oath…
29. Entered into a curse, and into an oath — Bound themselves by publicly uttered vows, and invoked upon themselves the curse of God should they prove unfaithful to their oaths.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv30–31 30. Prohibition of Intermarriage with the Heathen
30. Prohibition of Intermarriage with the Heathen
we] Observe the first person plural here introduced and maintained to Neh_10:39 throughout the rest of the Covenant details.
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people] R.V. peoples.
This prohibition of intermarriage with the people of the land had been strenuously upheld by Ezr_9:2. (See note.) The difficulty of enforcing it appears from Neh_13:23-28. The words of the prohibition seem to be based on Deu_7:3 ‘Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.’ Cf. Exo_34:16; Jos_23:12; Jdg_3:6.
It is to be noticed that the so-called Priestly Code gives no such prohibition unless it is implied in Gen_26:35; nor is it found in the central legislative portion of Deut. (12–26).
The Covenant introduces no new enactment, but affirms the Deuteronomic teaching which itself appears to be an expansion of the oldest law in Exo_23:32-33, ‘Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me.’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv29, 31 (29) They clave to their brethren.—It was a union…
(29) They clave to their brethren.—It was a union of the people as such, and sprang from a deep national conviction.
Entered into a curse, and into an oath.—The oath assumed the obligation; the curse imprecated the penalty of violation. (Comp. Deu_29:12.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv29–31 They clave to their brethren, their nobles. They gave…
They clave to their brethren, their nobles. They gave their support and adherence to their more distinguished brethren who had attached their seals to the document, approving what they had done, and ratifying it. Entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God"s law. Something of this kind seems to have occurred in the wilderness, when God"s law was first given to his people; (Deu_29:12) and therefore, when renewals of the covenant were made, and the people were required to ratify the act, it was natural to recur to the old sanction, An oath was probably taken of the people in the time of Josiah, (2Ki_23:3) when they are said to have "stood to the covenant." Moses the servant of God. The epithet "servant of God," or "servant of the Lord," attaches to Moses in a peculiar way. God called him (Num_12:7) "my servant Moses, who is faithful in all my house;" and henceforward "servant of God" was his epitheton usitatum. (see Jos_1:1 Jos_8:31, 33 1Ch_6:49 2Ch_24:9 Dan_9:11 Heb_3:5 Rev_15:3) St. Paul contrasts "Moses, the servant" with "Christ, the Son". (Heb_3:1-6)
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v31 And if the people of the land bring ware…
Neh_10:31
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to all
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The profit of Sabbath-keeping
John Brand was an old Cornish fisherman.
The fishing had not been good for some days, the water had been wild and stormy; but at length, on the Sunday, the weather became fine, and the other fishermen said, We would keep Sunday--but--we have had so few fish lately; and we are sorry to go out to-day--but--the weather is so good. It is a pity; we would not go if we were not so poor. What! said honest John, are you going to break Gods laws with your ifs and buts? Better be poor than be wicked. My religion is not the kind that shifts with the wind. Thou shalt remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy--that is enough for me. So he persuaded them, and they took his advice, and spent the day in worshipping God. And it was well they did so; for that night, just when the boats would have been coming back, a terrible storm suddenly burst over the deep, and lasted two days. Any boat out in that weather would certainly have been wrecked. But two days after the beautiful weather returned, and more fish were taken then than had been caught for weeks before. No; no one ever yet lost by obeying God. Be you like John Brand; be thorough, honest, and God-fearing in and out; do not have a religion like a weathercock that shifts with the wind, or one that can be broken with An if or a but. (J. Reid Howatt.)
The Sabbath beneficial
In a prize essay on the Sabbath written by a journeyman printer in Scotland, there appears the following striking passage: Yoke-fellows, think how the abstraction of the Sabbath would hopelessly enslave the working-classes with whom we are identified. Think of the labour thus going on in one monotonous, and continuous, and eternal cycle--limbs for ever on the rack, the fingers for ever plying, the eyeballs for ever straining, the brow for ever sweating, the feet for ever plodding, the brain for ever throbbing, the shoulders for ever drooping, the loins for ever aching, and the restless mind for ever scheming! Think of the beauty it would efface, of the merry-heartedness it would extinguish, of the giant strength it would tame, of the resources of nature it would exhaust, of the aspirations it would crush, of the sickness it would breed, of the projects it would wreck, of the groans it would extort, of the lives it would immolate, of the cheerless graves it would prematurely dig! See them toiling and moiling, sweating and fretting, grinding and hewing, weaving and spinning, sowing and gathering, mowing and reaping, raising mad building, digging mad planting, unloading and storing, striving and struggling--in the garden and in the field, in the granary and in the barn, in the factory and in the mill, in the warehouse and in the shop, on the mountain and in the ditch, on the roadside and in the wood, in the city and in the country, on the sea and on the shore, on the earth in days of brightness and of gloom. What a sad picture would the world present if we had no Sabbath!
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v30 General Information:
General Information:
In these verses, the people describe the content of the oath they were making in Nehemiah 10:29.
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would not give our daughters to the people of the land or take their daughters for our sons
This means that they would not allow their sons and daughters to marry them. AT: "would not give our daughters to marry the people of the land or take their daughters to marry our sons" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
the people of the land
This refers to the people who live in their land who do not worship Yahweh. AT: "the people of this land who do not worship Yahweh" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
We promised ... we would not give ... we would not buy ... we will let ... we will cancel
The pronoun "we" here includes Nehemiah and the Jewish people, but not the reader of this book. (See: Exclusive and Inclusive "We")
seventh year
"year 7" (See: Ordinal Numbers)
we will let our fields rest
This is an idiom. AT: "we will not plow our fields" or "we will not grow anything in our fields" (See: Idiom)
we will cancel all debts
This means that they will not require that people pay them what they owe. AT: "we will cancel all debts that people owe us" or "we will tell people that they no longer have to pay us back"
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv29–31 10:29 swore a curse on themselves if they failed…
10:29 swore a curse on themselves if they failed to obey the Law: Cp. Lev 26:14-35; Deut 28:15-62.
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