¹² and he said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; ^(A)consecrate yourselves, you and your relatives, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel ^(B)to the place that I have prepared for it.

³⁰ The priests and the Levites ^(A)purified themselves; they also purified the people, the gates, and the wall.