3 for they could not keep it ^bat that time ^cbecause the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem—

34 But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, ^wtheir brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—^xfor the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.