2 Chronicles 35:11 - New Revised Standard Version They slaughtered the passover lamb, and the priests dashed the blood that they received from them, while the Levites did the skinning. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They killed the Passover lambs, and the priests sprinkled the blood they received from the Levites who skinned the animals. American Standard Version (1901) And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them. Common English Bible Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs, and the priests splashed the blood while the Levites skinned the animals. Catholic Public Domain Version And the Passover was immolated. And the priests sprinkled the blood with their hand, and the Levites drew away the pelts of the holocausts. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the phase was immolated: and the priests sprinkled the blood with their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts. |
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.
They took their accustomed posts according to the law of Moses the man of God; the priests dashed the blood that they received from the hands of the Levites.
Josiah kept a passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; they slaughtered the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.
They set aside the burnt offerings so that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the ancestral houses of the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the bulls.
Slaughter the passover lamb, sanctify yourselves, and on behalf of your kindred make preparations, acting according to the word of the Lord by Moses.”
For both the priests and the Levites had purified themselves; all of them were clean. So they killed the passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.
They shall perform duties for you and for the whole tent. But they must not approach either the utensils of the sanctuary or the altar, otherwise both they and you will die.
But you and your sons with you shall diligently perform your priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and the area behind the curtain. I give your priesthood as a gift; any outsider who approaches shall be put to death.