1 Esdras 1:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁶ and kill the Passover lamb and prepare the sacrifices for your kindred, and keep the Passover according to the commandment of the Lord that was given to Moses.”^(A)

⁷ To the people who were present Josiah gave thirty thousand lambs and kids and three thousand calves; these were given from the king’s possessions, as he promised, to the people and the priests and Levites. ⁸ Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the temple, gave to the priests for the Passover two thousand six hundred sheep and three hundred calves.