Ezra 6:18-20

New International Reader's Version

¹⁸ The priests were appointed to their groups. And the Levites were appointed to their groups. All of them served God at Jerusalem. They served him in keeping with what is written in the Book of Moses.

The People Celebrate the Passover Feast

¹⁹ The people who had returned from the land of Babylon celebrated the Passover Feast. It was on the 14th day of the first month. ²⁰ The priests and Levites had made themselves pure and “clean.” The Levites killed Passover lambs for the people who had returned from Babylon. They also did it for themselves and their relatives, the priests.