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21 lines
814 B
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In these verses, the people continue describing the content of the oath they were making in [Nehemiah 10:28](./28.md).
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## We will bring...We will bring ##
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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]])
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## the first of our dough ##
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Dough is "coarse flour" or "ground grain."
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## the storerooms of the house of our God ##
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"the places where things are stored in the temple"
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## the tithes from our soil ##
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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]])
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## the storerooms of the treasury ##
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"the rooms where the priests stored the treasure" |