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Gather the people,
asanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders, Gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bbridegroom come out of his room And the bride out of her bridal chamber.
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1 Samuel 16:5, 2 Chronicles 29:5
1 Samuel 16
5
He said, "In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. aConsecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." He also consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
2 Chronicles 29
5
Then he said to them, "Listen to me, O Levites. aConsecrate yourselves now, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry the uncleanness out from the holy place.
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