^{28 Ref} The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites;

^{29 Ref} also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages round about Jerusalem.

^{30 Ref} The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.