Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 10:32-39 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nehemiah 10 in context

Scripture Focus

32Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

33For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

34And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

35And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:

36Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:

37And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

38And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

39For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

Nehemiah 10:32-39

Biblical Context

Nehemiah 10:32–39 records a covenant of regular offerings and temple provisions, binding the people to care for God’s house. It frames worship as disciplined stewardship rather than mere ritual.

Neville's Inner Vision

You are the I AM, the consciousness within which dwells the temple. When Nehemiah names ordinances, imagine them not as external fees but as the stable movements of your own inner life—the hours you keep your attention on the sanctuary of your God. The yearly third-part of a shekel is the small, constant sacrifice you offer of belief and feeling—a ready commitment to attend the work of your inner sanctuary. The shewbread, the perpetual meat offering, the burnt offerings, the sabbaths and feasts become inner nourishment—thoughts that sustain faith and align you with truth. Casting lots for the wood is your method of organizing intent: decide a time, a place, a pattern, and fulfill it, year after year, as law written in your being. The firstfruits of ground and trees, the firstborn of sons and cattle, the tithes of dough and oil—these are your best faculties, offered to the sanctuary and stewarded by your inner priests. Do not forsake the house of your God—let the temple within be cared for with discipline and love. In this, you practice the living law of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: For the next 24 hours, set aside one small mental sacrifice—choose a moment to revise a limiting belief into a truth about your inner sanctuary, and feel the temple awaken as you carry it out.