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 singers gathered together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;
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also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.
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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.
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Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate.
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And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah,