Nehemiah 12:28-30

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁸ The companies of the singers gathered together from the circuit around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites; ²⁹ also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem. ³⁰ And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.