Nehemiah 12:30

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The priests and Levites held special ceremonies to make themselves holy, and then they did the same for the rest of the people and for the gates and walls of the city.

Cross References

Genesis 35:2

Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was travelling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.

1 Chronicles 15:14

The priests and the Levites made themselves clean. They were now ready to carry the sacred chest

2 Chronicles 29:34

There were not enough priests to skin all these animals, because many of the priests had not taken the time to go through the ceremony to make themselves clean. However, since all the Levites had made themselves clean, they helped the priests until the last animal was skinned.

2 Chronicles 29:5

and said: It's time to purify the temple of the LORD God of our ancestors. You Levites must first go through the ceremony to make yourselves clean, then go into the temple and bring out everything that is unclean and unacceptable to the LORD.

Ezra 6:21

The sacrifices were eaten by the Israelites who had returned and by the neighbouring people who had given up the sinful customs of other nations in order to worship the LORD God of Israel.

Nehemiah 13:22

I ordered the Levites to make themselves holy and to guard the gates on the Sabbath, so that it would be kept holy. God is truly merciful, and I pray that he will treat me with kindness and bless me for doing this.

Nehemiah 13:30

Then I made sure that the people were free from every foreign influence, and I assigned duties for the priests and Levites.

Job 1:5

After each feast, Job would send for his children and perform a ceremony, as a way of asking God to forgive them for any wrongs they might have done. He would get up early the next morning and offer a sacrifice for each of them, just in case they had sinned or silently cursed God.

Exodus 19:10

Once more the LORD spoke to Moses: Go back and tell the people that today and tomorrow they must get themselves ready to meet me. They must wash their clothes

Exodus 19:15

He told them to be ready in three days and not to have sex in the meantime.

Hebrews 5:1

Every high priest is appointed to help others by offering gifts and sacrifices to God because of their sins.

Hebrews 5:3

That is why he must offer sacrifices for his own sins and for the sins of others.