George Leo Haydock, on Neh 10:29

“All that could understand promising for their brethren, with their chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would walk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant of God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.”

“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, &c. (Haydock)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.