Nehemiah 12:30

30 The cohanim and L'vi'im first purified themselves; then they purified the people, the gates and the wall;

Nehemiah 12:30 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 12:30

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 8:6 Numbers 8:7 Numbers 8:21 ) ( 19:9 ) .

Nehemiah 12:30 In-Context

28 The trained singers assembled together from the area around Yerushalayim, the villages of the N'tofati,

29 Beit-Gilgal and the region of Geva and 'Azmavet; for the singers had built villages for themselves all around Yerushalayim.

30 The cohanim and L'vi'im first purified themselves; then they purified the people, the gates and the wall;

31 and after that I brought the leaders of Y'hudah up onto the wall and appointed two large choirs to give thanks and to walk in procession. One went to the right on the wall toward the Dung Gate.

32 After them went Hosha'yah and half of the leaders of Y'hudah,