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Then he brought in the priests and descendants of Levi, gathered them into the square in the eastern part of the Temple,[a] and told them,

“Pay attention to me, you descendants of Levi! Consecrate yourselves and the Temple of the Lord God of your ancestors by taking out from the Holy Place whatever is unclean. Our ancestors have been unfaithful. They practiced what the Lord considers to be evil, abandoned him, turned their faces away from the place where the Lord resides, and turned their backs to him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:4 The Heb. lacks part of the temple