King James Version
Nehemiah 10:32 in the King James Version says “Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house ...” — study this verse from Nehemiah chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;”
Nehemiah 10:32 · KJV
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. every: Heb. every hand
Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
For the shewbread , and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
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“Also we made”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“for us to charge”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“with the third part”
H7992third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
“of the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“of our God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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