³ for they could not keep it ^(A)at that time ^(B)because 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, ^(A)their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—^(B)for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.

^18 (A)In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

⁶ and you shall keep it until the ^(A)fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.^[a]

¹⁷ They began to consecrate ^(A)on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the Lord, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.