Ezra 6:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For both the priests and the Levites had purified themselves; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.

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.

2 Chronicles 35:11

They slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests dashed the blood that they received from them, while the Levites did the skinning.

2 Chronicles 35:14

Afterward they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the descendants of Aaron were occupied in offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night, so the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

2 Chronicles 35:15

The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and the king’s seer Jeduthun. The gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not need to interrupt their service, for their kindred the Levites made preparations for them.

Exodus 12:21

Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select lambs for your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Hebrews 7:27

Unlike the other high priests, he has no need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; this he did once for all when he offered himself.