“The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 12 contains 47 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.