2 Chronicles 30:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to make it holy to the Lord.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For many were in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves [become clean and free from all sin]. So the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all who were not clean, in order to make them holy to the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For there were many in the assembly that had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Since many in the congregation hadn’t made themselves holy, the Levites slaughtered the Passover lambs, making them holy to the LORD for all who weren’t ceremonially clean.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ because a great number were not sanctified. And therefore, the Levites immolated the Passover for those who had not been sanctified to the Lord in time.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Because a great number was not sanctified. And therefore the Levites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be sanctified to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 30:17 Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:34

But the priests were too few and could not skin all the burnt offerings, so, until other priests had sanctified themselves, their kindred, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished, for the Levites were more conscientious than the priests in sanctifying themselves.

Exodus 12:6

You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

Ezekiel 44:11

They shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple and serving in the temple; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall attend on them and serve them.

Numbers 9:7

and said to him, “Although we are unclean through touching a corpse, why must we be kept from presenting the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”

John 11:55

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.