So I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place.

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, profaning the Sabbath day?

Those who forsake the Law praise the wicked, but those who keep the Law strive against them.

I also shook out empty the bosom of my garment and said, So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not carry out this word. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen! and praised Jehovah. Then the people did according to this word.

And the Levites shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Israel:

Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt. And all the people shall say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who makes the blind to wander off the road. And all the people shall say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who strikes his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the Words of this Law. And all the people shall say, Amen!

in whose eyes the reprobate is despised, but he honors those who fear Jehovah; he has sworn to his hurt, and does not change it;

Then one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, Teacher, by saying these things You also insult us.

And He said, Woe to you also, lawyers! For you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie prostrate and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, by number.

He may beat him forty times and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many stripes above these, and your brother be degraded in your eyes.

Whoever will not observe the Law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed diligently upon him, whether it be death, or banishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.

I gave My back to those who strike, and My cheeks to those who pluck; I hid not My face from shame and spitting.

these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law, which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

We would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.

You shall fear Jehovah your God and serve Him, and swear by His name.

And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

And they swore unto Jehovah with a loud voice, with shouting and trumpets and shofars.

Then Ezra arose, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear an oath that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.