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2 Chronicles 29:34

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

However, since there were not enough priests, they weren’t able to skin all the burnt offerings, so their Levite brothers helped them  until the work was finished and until the priests consecrated themselves. For the Levites were more conscientious  , to consecrate themselves than the priests were.

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Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs, and while the Levites were skinning the animals,  the priests splattered the blood  they had been given.


because they were not able to observe it at the appropriate time. Not enough of the priests had consecrated themselves,  and the people hadn’t been gathered together in Jerusalem.


He said to them, ‘Hear me, Levites. Consecrate yourselves  now and consecrate the temple of the Lord, the God of your ancestors. Remove everything impure from the holy place.


I know, my God, that you test the heart  and that you are pleased with what is right.  I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present  here giving joyfully and  willingly to you.


They are to perform duties for you and for the whole tent. They must not come near the sanctuary equipment or the altar; otherwise, both they and you will die.


From the Israelites, I have given the Levites exclusively to Aaron and his sons to perform the work for the Israelites at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.’


After that the Levites may come to serve at the tent of meeting, once you have ceremonially cleansed them and presented them as a presentation offering.


Six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep and goats were consecrated.


They slaughtered the Passover lamb  on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the Lord’s temple.


for King Hezekiah of Judah contributed one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the congregation. Also, the officials contributed one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the congregation,  and many priests consecrated themselves.


All of the priests and Levites were ceremonially clean, because they had purified themselves. They killed the Passover lamb for themselves, their priestly brothers, and all the exiles.


Yet they will occupy my sanctuary, serving as guards at the temple gates  and ministering at the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings  and other sacrifices for the people and will stand before them to serve them.


But by the twenty-third year  of the reign of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage  to the temple.





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