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814 B
814 B
In these verses, the people continue describing the content of the oath they were making in Nehemiah 10:28.
We will bring...We will bring
The pronoun "we" here includes Nehemiah and the Israelites except for the priests and the Levites, and also does not include the reader of this book (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclusive)
the first of our dough
Dough is "coarse flour" or "ground grain."
the storerooms of the house of our God
"the places where things are stored in the temple"
the tithes from our soil
Here "our soil" refers to everything that is grown in the ground. AT: "one tenth of what we grow in the ground" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)
the storerooms of the treasury
"the rooms where the priests stored the treasure"