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18 Then they chose the priests in their groups and the Levites in their groups to serve in God’s Temple in Jerusalem. They did these things as it is written in the Book of Moses.

The Passover

19 [a] On the fourteenth day of the first month,[b] the Jews who came back from captivity celebrated the Passover. 20 The priests and Levites made themselves pure. They all made themselves clean and ready to celebrate the Passover. The Levites killed the Passover lamb for all the Jews who came back from captivity. They did that for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:19 Here, the original language changes from Aramaic back to Hebrew.
  2. Ezra 6:19 first month That is, March–April, 515 B.C.

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