Likewise at the same time I said to the people, Let each with his servant lodge within Jerusalem that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.

So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, each one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad pla

And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each one to his field.

And their sons spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed charges for the priests and for the Levites, each one in his work,