Nehemiah 13:9
Good News Translation
I gave orders for the rooms to be ritually purified and for the Temple equipment, grain offerings, and incense to be put back.

New Revised Standard Version
Then I gave orders and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.

Contemporary English Version
Then I ordered the room to be cleaned and the temple utensils, the grain offerings, and the incense to be brought back into the room.

New American Bible
Then I gave orders to purify the chambers, and I brought back the vessels of the house of God, the grain offerings, and the incense.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I commanded and they cleansed again the vessels of the house of God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.

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And I commanded and they cleansed again the vessels of the house of God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.

they cleansed.

Nehemiah 12:45 For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were chief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to God.

2 Chronicles 29:5,15-19 And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary. . . .

Context
The Temple Cleansed
8And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I cast forth the vessels of the house of Tobias out of the storehouse. 9And I commanded and they cleansed again the vessels of the house of God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 29:5
And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary.

2 Chronicles 29:15
And they gathered together their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and the precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.

Nehemiah 10:37
And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil to the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our works out of all the cities.

Ezekiel 40:38
And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.

Nehemiah 13:8
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