Ezra 6:18-20

Contemporary English Version

¹⁸Then the priests and Levites were assigned their duties in God's temple in Jerusalem, according to the instructions Moses had written.^[a]

The Passover

¹⁹^(A) Everyone who had returned from exile celebrated Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.^[b] ²⁰The priests and Levites had gone through a ceremony to make themselves acceptable to lead in worship. Then some of them killed Passover lambs for those who had returned, including the other priests and themselves.

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Footnotes

6.18 Ezra 4.8—6.18 was written in Aramaic, instead of Hebrew like most of the Old Testament.
6.19 the first month: Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.