2 Chronicles 29:17

29:17 On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the Lord’s temple. ¹  For eight more days they consecrated the Lord’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished.

2 Chronicles 29:34

29:34 But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, ²  so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.) ³ 

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¹ tn Heb “porch of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”

³ tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”