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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The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites;
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also from Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages round about Jerusalem.
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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 up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession; [whereof one went] on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate:
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and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,