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2 Chronicles 35:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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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.


They stood at their prescribed posts,  according to the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests splattered the blood received from the Levites,


But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities  for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,  but an unauthorised person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.’


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.


Josiah observed the Lord’s Passover  and slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.


Slaughter the Passover lambs,  consecrate yourselves,  and make preparations for your brothers to carry out the word of the Lord through Moses.’


They removed the burnt offerings so that they might be given to the groupings of the ancestral families  of the lay people to offer to the Lord, according to what is written in the book of Moses; they did the same with the cattle.


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.





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