Nehemiah 10:30-32

The Voice

³⁰ Our daughters will not be married to the sons of any of our foreign neighbors. We will not allow our sons to marry their daughters.

³¹ If any of our foreign neighbors come to sell their goods, their grain, or their produce on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them then or on any holy day.

Every seven years, every Jew everywhere will allow the land to rest for one year. We will not work on it; we will not make it work. We will also cancel all outstanding debts, freeing any Israelite who has become enslaved to a creditor.

³² We are committing to tax ourselves as well. Every year each man will pay eight ounces of silver to care for God’s temple.