1 Esdras 1:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ Sacrifice the Passover lamb and prepare sacrifices for your people, and conduct the Passover ceremony according to the rules that the Lord gave to Moses.”

⁷ Josiah gave to the people a gift of thirty thousand lambs and kid goats and three thousand calves. These came as promised from the king’s own possessions to the people, priests, and Levites. ⁸ Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel^[a] (the chief officials of the temple) gave to the priests for the Passover twenty-six hundred sheep and three hundred calves.