“Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 10 contains 39 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.