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 the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites,
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And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.
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And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.
31
Then I made the rulers of Judah come up on the wall, and I put in position two great bands of them who gave praise, walking in ordered lines; one went to the right on the wall, in the direction of the doorway where the waste was put;
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And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the rulers of Judah,
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