Nehemiah 5:2-3

5:2 There were those who said, “With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain ¹  grain in order to eat and stay alive.” 5:3 There were others who said, “We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”

Nehemiah 9:38

The People Pledge to be Faithful

9:38 (10:1) ²  “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant ³  in written form; ⁴  our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names ⁵  on the sealed document.”

[5:2]  ¹ tn Heb “take” (so also in v. 3).

[9:38]  ² sn Beginning with 9:38, the verse numbers through 10:39 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 9:38 ET = 10:1 HT, 10:1 ET = 10:2 HT, 10:2 ET = 10:3 HT, etc., through 10:39 ET = 10:40 HT. Beginning with 11:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[9:38]  ³ tn Heb “we are cutting.”

[9:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “and writing.”

[9:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “our leaders, our Levites, and our priests on the sealed document.” The Hebrew text is elliptical here; the words “have affixed their names” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. Cf. v. 2.