16 They stood at their prescribed posts,(A) according to the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests splattered the blood received from the Levites, 17 for there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, and so the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the Lord.(B) 18 A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—were ritually unclean, yet they had eaten the Passover(C) contrary to what was written.(D) But Hezekiah had interceded for them, saying, “May the good Lord provide atonement on behalf of

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