²⁰ For the priests and the Levites had ^(A)purified themselves; all of them were ritually clean. And they ^(B)slaughtered the Passover lambs for all the descendants of the captivity, for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

¹¹ And they slaughtered the Passover offerings; and the priests ^(A)sprinkled the blood with their hands, while the Levites ^(B)skinned the animals.

²⁷ who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His ^(A)own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

³⁴ But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore ^(A)their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was ended and until the other priests had ^[a]sanctified themselves, ^(B)for the Levites were ^(C)more diligent in ^(D)sanctifying themselves than the priests.

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. ¹⁶ They stood in their ^(B)place ^[c]according to their custom, according to the Law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood received from the hand of the Levites. ¹⁷ For there were many in the assembly who had not ^[d]sanctified themselves; ^(C)therefore the Levites had charge of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the Lord.

²¹ Then ^(A)Moses called for all the ^(B)elders of Israel and said to them, ^(C)“Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.