They joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Understand. Hebrew mebin, "the teachers "or Levites, 1 Esdras viii. 16. (Menochius)
Promising. Hebrew, "clave to their brethren "and they promised with a curse to transgressors, and with an oath to walk (Haydock)