So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to the priests and the Levites.
But as for us, the Lord is our God and we have not rejected him. Aaron’s descendants serve as the Lord’s priests and the Levites assist them with the work.
“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.
When the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.