5 And he proceeded to say to them: “Listen to me, YOU Levites. Now sanctify+ yourselves and sanctify the house of Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers, and bring the impure thing out from the holy place.+

20 As the priests and the Levites had cleansed+ themselves as one group, they were all of them clean, and so they slaughtered the passover victim+ for all the former exiles and for their brothers the priests and for themselves.