15 (A)And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. (B)And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, (C)so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord. 16 (D)They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses (E)the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites. 17 For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the Lord. 18 For a majority of the people, (F)many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise (G)than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone 19 (H)who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness.”[a] 20 And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 30:19 Hebrew not according to the cleanness of holiness

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