¹⁵ And they gathered their brothers, ^(A)set themselves apart as holy, and went in ^(B)to cleanse the house of Yahweh, according to the commandment of the king ^(C)by the words of Yahweh. ¹⁶ So the priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh to cleanse it, and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of Yahweh they brought out to the court of the house of Yahweh. Then the Levites received it to bring out to ^(D)the Kidron ^[a]valley, to an outer area. ¹⁷ Then they began ^[b]to set it apart as holy ^(E)on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they entered the porch of Yahweh. Then they set apart the house of Yahweh as holy in eight days, and completed it on the sixteenth day of the first month.