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Nehemiah 10:35-39 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

35. Each year we will bring to the temple the first part of our harvest of grain and fruit.

36. We will bring our firstborn sons and the firstborn males of our herds and flocks and offer them to the priests who serve in the temple, because this is what is written in God's Law.

37. To the priests in the temple of our God, we will bring the bread dough from the first harvest, together with our best fruit, and an offering of new wine and olive oil.We will bring ten per cent of our grain harvest to those Levites who are responsible for collecting it in our towns.

38. A priest from the family of Aaron must be there when we give this to the Levites. Then the Levites will put one tenth of this part in the temple storeroom,

39. which is also the place for the sacred objects used by the priests, the temple guards, and the singers.Levites and everyone else must bring their gifts of grain, wine, and olive oil to this room.We will not neglect the temple of our God.

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