Ezra 6:20

Conservative English Version

The 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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:34

There were not enough priests to skin all these animals, because many of the priests had not taken the time to go through the ceremony to make themselves clean. However, since all the Levites had made themselves clean, they helped the priests until the last animal was skinned.

2 Chronicles 35:11

Then the Levites killed and skinned the Passover lambs, and they handed some of the blood to the priests, who splattered it on the altar.

2 Chronicles 35:14

All day long, the priests were busy offering sacrifices and burning the animals' fat on the altar. And when everyone had finished, the Levites prepared Passover animals for themselves and for the priests.

2 Chronicles 35:15

During the celebration some of the Levites prepared Passover animals for the musicians and the guards, so that the Levite musicians would not have to leave their places, which had been assigned to them according to the instructions of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king's prophet. Even the guards at the temple gates did not have to leave their posts.

Exodus 12:21

Moses called the leaders of Israel together and said: Each family is to pick out a sheep and kill it for Passover.

Hebrews 7:27

and he is better than any other high priest. Jesus doesn't need to offer sacrifices each day for his own sins and then for the sins of the people. He offered a sacrifice once for all, when he gave himself.