¹² and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.

⁶ Kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of Yahweh by Moses.

¹⁴ Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

¹⁵ He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman."

¹⁵ Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.

⁹ They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for God with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

¹⁰ And made them kings and priests to our God, And they reign on earth."

¹ Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

² Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

¹⁷ Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

¹¹ [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

⁴ He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,

⁵ and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

¹¹ It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their divisions;

³¹ These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

¹⁴ So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

³ David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it.

¹ [David] made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

³⁴ These were heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men: these lived at Jerusalem.