Nehemiah 10:29

were urgent with their brethren, and bound themselves with an oath, entering into a curse and an oath: That we will walk in the law of God, which was given by the ministry of Moses the servant of God, to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord and His judgments and His statutes;

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nathinim, and every one who drew off from the nations of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one who had knowledge and understanding,