Nehemiah 10:28-31

Others who joined in this covenant -- Nehemiah 10:28-29:

The covenant promises that they made -- Nehemiah 10:30-31: In their covenant with God they promised that would not intermarry with the hearten nations. Many of the Jews had done that but they promised that it would not happen again. As we remember some of them had even divorced their good, faithful Jewish wives to marry foreign women! The Jews also promised to observe the Sabbath and to keep the Sabbatical year. Let us remember that the Jewish Sabbath Day was actually on Saturday. They promised to cease the practice of buying and selling on the Sabbath Day. They also covenanted not to be as harsh in the exacting of their debts as they had been in the past. (Nehemiah 5) People would be released from their debts on the Sabbatical year as God had commanded. Only the most stubborn of people will not correct the fault they have been told to correct.