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The Passover Celebrated

19 On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles kept the Passover.(A) 20 For both the priests and the Levites had purified themselves; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.(B) 21 It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile and also by all who had joined them and separated themselves from the pollutions of the nations of the land to seek the Lord, the God of Israel.(C) 22 With joy they celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread seven days, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.(D)

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19 The exiles(A) observed the Passover(B) on the fourteenth day of the first month. 20 All of the priests and Levites were ceremonially clean, because they had purified themselves. They killed the Passover lamb for themselves, their priestly brothers, and all the exiles.(C) 21 The Israelites who had returned from exile(D) ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land[a](E) in order to worship Yahweh, the God of Israel. 22 They observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days(F) with joy, because the Lord had made them joyful, having changed the Assyrian king’s attitude toward them, so that he supported them[b] in the work on the house of the God of Israel.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:21 Lit land to them
  2. Ezra 6:22 Lit their hands