And the priests and the Levites purified themselves By washing their bodies and their clothes, perhaps by sprinkling the water of purification on them, see ( Numbers 8:6Numbers 8:7Numbers 8:21 ) ( 19:9 ) .
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and sons of the singers are gathered together even from the circuit round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi,
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and from the house of Gilgal, and from fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for villages have the singers built for themselves round about Jerusalem;
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and the priests and the Levites are cleansed, and they cleanse the people, and the gates, and the wall.
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And I bring up the heads of Judah upon the wall, and appoint two great thanksgiving companies and processions. At the right, on the wall, to the dung-gate;
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and after them goeth Hoshaiah, and half of the heads of Judah,
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