Nehemiah 2:16

2:16 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had been doing, for up to this point I had not told any of the Jews or the priests or the nobles or the officials or the rest of the workers.

Nehemiah 7:70

7:70 Some of the family leaders ¹  contributed to the work. The governor contributed to the treasury 1,000 gold drachmas, ²  50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments.

Nehemiah 8:9

8:9 Then Nehemiah the governor, ³  Ezra the priestly scribe, ⁴  and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them, ⁵  “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 9:32

9:32 “So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity ⁶  – do not regard as inconsequential ⁷  all the hardship that has befallen us – our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people – from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!

Nehemiah 10:28

10:28 “Now the rest of the people – the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple attendants, and all those who have separated themselves from the neighboring peoples ⁸  because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand –

Nehemiah 10:34

10:34 “We – the priests, the Levites, and the people – have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families ⁹  at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the law.

Nehemiah 10:37-39

10:37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce ¹⁰  of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. ¹¹  10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line ¹²  will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury. 10:39 The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”

Nehemiah 11:3

11:3 These are the provincial leaders ¹³  who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities,

Nehemiah 13:5

13:5 He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping ¹⁴  the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.

Nehemiah 13:13

13:13 I gave instructions ¹⁵  that Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a certain Levite named Pedaiah be put in charge of ¹⁶  the storerooms, and that Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, be their assistant, ¹⁷  for they were regarded as trustworthy. It was then their responsibility to oversee the distribution to their colleagues. ¹⁸ 

[7:70]  ¹ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

[7:70]  ² tn Heb “darics” (also in vv. 71, 72).

[8:9]  ¹ tc The unexpected reference to Nehemiah here has led some scholars to suspect that the phrase “Nehemiah the governor” is a later addition to the text and not original.

[8:9]  ² tn Heb “the priest, the scribe.”

[8:9]  ³ tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

[9:32]  ¹ tn Heb “the covenant and loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys. The second noun retains its full nominal sense, while the first functions adjectivally: “the covenant and loyalty” = covenant fidelity.

[9:32]  ² tn Heb “do not let it seem small in your sight.”

[10:28]  ¹ tn Heb “from the peoples of the lands.” Cf. vv. 30, 31.

[10:34]  ¹ tn Heb “the house of our fathers.”

[10:37]  ¹ tn Heb “a tithe of our land.”

[10:37]  ² tn Heb “of our work.”

[10:38]  ¹ tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”

[11:3]  ¹ tn Heb “the heads of the province.”

[13:5]  ¹ tn Heb “giving.”

[13:13]  ¹ tc Probably one should read with the Lucianic Greek recension, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate וָאֲצַוֶּה (va’atsavveh, “and I commanded”) rather than the rare denominative verb וָאוֹצְרָה (va’otsÿrah, “and I appointed over the storeroom”) of the MT.

[13:13]  ² tn Heb “be over”

[13:13]  ³ tn Heb “on their hand.”

[13:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “brothers.”