So I purified them of everything that was foreign. I appointed duties for the priests and Levites, giving each man his own job.
“But as for us, the Lord is our God; we have not left him. The priests who serve the Lord are Aaron’s sons, and the Levites help them.
They said: We promise not to let our daughters marry foreigners nor to let our sons marry their daughters.
The priests and Levites made themselves pure, and they also made the people, the gates, and the wall of Jerusalem pure.