Nehemiah 12:30
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New International Version (©2011)
When the priests and Levites had purified themselves ceremonially, they purified the people, the gates and the wall.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The priests and Levites first purified themselves; then they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The priests and the Levites purified themselves; they also purified the people, the gates and the wall.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The priests and the descendants of Levi purified themselves, and also purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

NET Bible (©2006)
When the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The priests and the Levites cleansed themselves. Then they cleansed the people, the gates, and the wall.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

American King James Version
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

American Standard Version
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priests and the Levites purified, and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Darby Bible Translation
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates and the wall.

English Revised Version
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

World English Bible
The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Young's Literal Translation
and the priests and the Levites are cleansed, and they cleanse the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:27-43 All our cities, all our houses, must have holiness to the Lord written upon them. The believer should undertake nothing which he does not dedicate to the Lord. We are concerned to cleanse our hands, and purify our hearts, when any work for God is to pass through them. Those that would be employed to sanctify others, must sanctify themselves, and set themselves apart for God. To those who are sanctified, all their creature-comforts and enjoyments are made holy. The people greatly rejoiced. All that share in public mercies, ought to join in public thanksgivings.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

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Dedication of the Wall
…29Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages round about Jerusalem. 30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. 31Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate: …

Nehemiah 12:29 from Beth Gilgal, and from the area of Geba and Azmaveth, for the musicians had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 13:22 Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.
Nehemiah 13:30 So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task.