Nebai is a person mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as one of the leaders among the people who placed their seal on the covenant with God after returning from exile in Babylon. He is among those who committed themselves to follow God's law and remain separate from the surrounding nations. Little else is known about him beyond this role as a co-signer.
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Sealing of the covenant
Nebai was one of the leaders of the people who placed his seal on the covenant to follow God's law, as it was renewed under the leadership of Nehemiah and Ezra in Jerusalem.
Together with others who sealed the covenant, Nebai committed himself to walk according to God's law, which was given through Moses, and to keep all the Lord's commands, statutes, and laws.
29The rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands in order to follow the Law of God, together with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all who had the knowledge to understand—
As part of the covenant, Nebai joined the people in promising not to give their daughters in marriage to the foreign peoples in the land or to take their daughters as wives for their sons.
30joined with their brothers, the nobles, and bound themselves with a curse and an oath to walk in the Law of God, given through Moses the servant of God, and to keep and carry out all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, with his judgments and his statutes: