1 Esdras 1:1-2

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(b) The books from 1 Esdras through 3 Maccabees are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek and the Russian Orthodox Churches. They are not so recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but 1 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh (together with 2 Esdras) are placed in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

Josiah Celebrates the Passover

1 Josiah kept the Passover to his Lord in Jerusalem; he killed the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month,^{(A) 2} having placed the priests according to their divisions, arrayed in their vestments, in the temple of the Lord.^(B)