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Ne 9:38 Strong Concordance And because of all this we make [03772] a sure [0548] covenant, and write [03789] it; and our princes [08269], Levites [03881], and priests [03548], seal [02856] unto it.
  King James And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
we make a sure covenant, and write--that is, subscribe or sign it. This written document would exercise a wholesome influence in restraining their backslidings or in animating them to duty, by being a witness against them if in the future they were unfaithful to their engagements.
 
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10 And I subscribed [03789] the evidence [05612], and sealed [02856] it, and took [05749] witnesses [05707], and weighed [08254] him the money [03701] in the balances [03976].
1 Now those that sealed [02856] were, Nehemiah [05166], the Tirshatha [08660], the son [01121] of Hachaliah [02446], and Zidkijah [06667],