² For the king and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the second ^(A)month.

¹⁰ “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your ^[a]posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the Lord’s Passover. ¹¹ On ^(A)the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall ^(B)eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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¹⁵ Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites ^[a]were ^(A)ashamed, and ^[b]sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.

¹³ Now many people, a very great assembly, gathered at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of ^(A)Unleavened Bread in the second month.

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13 Then David consulted with the ^(B)captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader. ² And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of the Lord our God, let us send out to our brethren everywhere who are ^(C)left in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites who are in their cities and their common-lands, that they may gather together to us; ³ and let us bring the ark of our God back to us, ^(D)for we have not inquired at it since the days of Saul.”