Rashi, on Neh 10:1

“And the subscribers were Nehemias, Athersatha the son of Hachelai, and Sedecias,”

“Yet, despite all this Despite all the evil that has come upon us, we are making a trust with the Holy One, blessed be He, to believe and to trust in Him. and writing And we are writing on a scroll to accept His kingdom upon us in order that it be to us as a testimony. and signed thereon for most of the great and prominent men among us have signed the scroll of the acceptance of the commandments, to be for us as a testimony.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

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