unfoldingWord_en_tn/neh/10/37.md

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  • In these verses, the people continue describing the content of the oath they were making in en/bible/notes/neh/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: en:ta:vol2: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: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_synecdoche)
  • the storerooms of the treasury - "the rooms where the priests stored the treasure"