4. He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,
5. and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the Lord, the God of your fathers’ house, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.
6. For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in the Lord our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.