Nehemiah:12:27-47
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And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in their places ,
to bring them to Jerusalem ,
to keep a feast of dedication and gladness with thanksgiving ,
and they sounded cymbals with songs ,
and had psalteries and harps .
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And the sons of the singers were assembled both from the neighbourhood round about to Jerusalem ,
and from the villages ,
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and from the country :
for the singers built themselves villages (
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by Jerusalem .
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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves ,
and they purified the people ,
and the porters ,
and the wall .
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And they brought up the princes of Juda on the wall ,
and they appointed two great companies for thanksgiving ,
and they passed on the right hand on the wall of the dung-gate .
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And after them went Osaia ,
and half the princes of Juda ,
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and Azarias ,
and Esdras ,
and Mesollam ,
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and Juda ,
and Benjamin ,
and Samaias and Jeremia .
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And some of the sons of the priest with trumpets ,
Zacharias son of Jonathan ,
son of Samaias ,
son of Matthania ,
son of Michaia ,
son of Zacchur ,
son of Asaph :
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and his brethren , (
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These terminations often vary (:
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Samaia ,
and Oziel ,
Gelol ,
Jama ,
Aia ,
Nathanael ,
and Juda ,
Anani ,
to praise with the hymns of David the man of God ;
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and Esdras the scribe was before them ,
at the gate ,
to praise before them ,
and they went up by the steps of the city of David ,
in the ascent of the wall ,
above the house of David ,
even to the water-gate
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of Ephraim , (
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and to the fish-gate ,
and by the tower of Anameel ,
and as far as the sheep-gate .
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And the singers were heard ,
and were numbered .
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And in that day they offered great sacrifices ,
and rejoiced ;
for God had made them very joyful :
and their wives and their children rejoiced :
and the joy in Jerusalem was heard from afar off .
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And in that day they appointed men over the treasuries ,
for the treasures ,
the first-fruits ,
and the tithes ,
and for the chiefs of the cities who were assembled among them , (
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to furnish portions for the priests and Levites :
for there was joy in Juda over the priests and over the Levites that waited .
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And they kept the (
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charges of their God ,
and the charges of the purification ,
and ordered the singers and the porters ,
according to the commandments of David and his son Solomon .
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For in the days of David Asaph was originally first of the singers ,
and they sang hymns and praise to God .
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And all Israel in the days of Zorobabel ,
and in the days of Neemias ,
gave the portions of the singers and the porters ,
a daily rate :
and consecrated them to the Levites :
and the Levites consecrated them to the sons of Aaron .
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