Ezra 6:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for the priests and the Levites have been purified together -- all of them `are' pure -- and they slaughter the passover for all the sons of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

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  • 2 Chr 35:11 : 11 and they slaughter the passover-offering, and the priests sprinkle out of their hand, and the Levites are striping;
  • 2 Chr 29:34 : 34 Only, the priests have become few, and have not been able to strip the whole of the burnt-offerings, and their brethren the Levites strengthen them till the completion of the work, and till the priests sanctify themselves, for the Levites `are' more upright of heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
  • 2 Chr 30:15-17 : 15 and they slaughter the passover-offering on the fourteenth of the second month, and the priests and the Levites have been ashamed, and sanctify themselves, and bring in burnt-offerings to the house of Jehovah. 16 And they stand on their station according to their ordinance; according to the law of Moses the man of God the priests are sprinkling the blood out of the hand of the Levites, 17 for many `are' in the assembly who have not sanctified themselves, and the Levites `are' over the slaughtering of the passover-offerings for every one not clean, to sanctify `him' to Jehovah:
  • Heb 7:27 : 27 who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;
  • Exod 12:21 : 21 And Moses calleth for all the elders of Israel, and saith unto them, `Draw out and take for yourselves `from' the flock, for your families, and slaughter the passover-sacrifice;

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  • Ezra 6:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

    18and they have established the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, over the service of God that `is' in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

    19And the sons of the captivity make the passover on the fourteenth of the first month,

  • 2 Chr 30:15-18
    4 verses
    79%

    15and they slaughter the passover-offering on the fourteenth of the second month, and the priests and the Levites have been ashamed, and sanctify themselves, and bring in burnt-offerings to the house of Jehovah.

    16And they stand on their station according to their ordinance; according to the law of Moses the man of God the priests are sprinkling the blood out of the hand of the Levites,

    17for many `are' in the assembly who have not sanctified themselves, and the Levites `are' over the slaughtering of the passover-offerings for every one not clean, to sanctify `him' to Jehovah:

    18for a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, have not been cleansed, but have eaten the passover otherwise than it is written; but Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, `Jehovah, who `is' good, doth receive atonement for every one

  • Ezra 6:21
    78%

    21And the sons of Israel, those returning from the captivity, and every one who is separated from the uncleanness of the nations of the land unto them, to seek to Jehovah, God of Israel, do eat,

  • Neh 12:30
    75%

    30and the priests and the Levites are cleansed, and they cleanse the people, and the gates, and the wall.

  • 2 Chr 35:9-14
    6 verses
    75%

    9and Conaniah, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah, and Jeiel, and Jozabad, heads of the Levites, have lifted up to the Levites, for passover-offerings, five thousand, and oxen five hundred.

    10And the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their courses, according to the command of the king,

    11and they slaughter the passover-offering, and the priests sprinkle out of their hand, and the Levites are striping;

    12and they turn aside the burnt-offering, to put them by the divisions of the house of the fathers of the sons of the people, to bring near to Jehovah, as it is written in the book of Moses -- and so to the oxen.

    13And they cook the passover with fire, according to the ordinance, and the sanctified things they have cooked in pots, and in kettles, and in pans -- for all the sons of the people.

    14And afterward they have prepared for themselves, and for the priests: for the priests, sons of Aaron, `are' in the offering up of the burnt-offering and of the fat till night; and the Levites have prepared for themselves, and for the priests, sons of Aaron.

  • 2 Chr 35:6
    75%

    6and slaughter the passover-offering and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of Jehovah by the hand of Moses.'

  • 2 Chr 30:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2And the king taketh counsel, and his heads, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to make the passover in the second month,

    3for they have not been able to make it at that time, for the priests have not sanctified themselves sufficiently, and the people have not been gathered to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 29:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15and they gather their brethren, and sanctify themselves, and come in, according to the command of the king in the matters of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah,

    16and the priests come in to the inner part of the house of Jehovah to cleanse `it', and bring out all the uncleanness that they have found in the temple of Jehovah to the court of the house of Jehovah, and the Levites receive `it', to take `it' out to the brook Kidron without.

  • Neh 13:30
    73%

    30And I have cleansed them from every stranger, and appoint charges to priests and to Levites, each in his work,

  • Num 8:21
    72%

    21And the Levites cleanse themselves, and wash their garments, and Aaron waveth them a wave-offering before Jehovah, and Aaron maketh atonement for them to cleanse them,

  • Num 8:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6`Take the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and thou hast cleansed them.

    7`And thus thou dost to them to cleanse them: sprinkle upon them waters of atonement, and they have caused a razor to pass over all their flesh, and have washed their garments, and cleansed themselves,

  • Ezra 6:16
    71%

    16And the sons of Israel have made, `and' the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the sons of the captivity, a dedication of this house of God with joy,

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    71%

    34Only, the priests have become few, and have not been able to strip the whole of the burnt-offerings, and their brethren the Levites strengthen them till the completion of the work, and till the priests sanctify themselves, for the Levites `are' more upright of heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • 2 Chr 35:1
    71%

    1And Josiah maketh in Jerusalem a passover to Jehovah, and they slaughter the passover-offering on the fourteenth of the first month,

  • 2 Chr 35:16-18
    3 verses
    71%

    16And all the service of Jehovah is prepared on that day, to keep the passover, and to cause to ascend burnt-offering upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the command of king Josiah.

    17And the sons of Israel who are found make the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened things, seven days.

    18And there hath not been made a passover like it in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, and none of the kings of Israel made such a passover as Josiah hath made, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who are found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 29:22
    71%

    22And they slaughter the oxen, and the priests receive the blood, and sprinkle on the altar; and they slaughter the rams, and sprinkle the blood on the altar; and they slaughter the lambs, and sprinkle the blood on the altar;

  • John 11:55
    70%

    55And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

  • Num 9:6
    70%

    6And there are men who have been defiled by the body of a man, and they have not been able to prepare the passover on that day, and they come near before Moses, and before Aaron, on that day,

  • Lev 14:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19`And the priest hath made the sin-offering, and hath made atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness, and afterwards he doth slaughter the burnt-offering;

    20and the priest hath caused the burnt-offering to ascend, also the present, on the altar, and the priest hath made atonement for him, and he hath been clean.

  • Ezek 45:21
    70%

    21`In the first `month', in the fourteenth day of the month, ye have the passover, a feast of seven days, unleavened food is eaten.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    70%

    14And the priests and the Levites sanctify themselves, to bring up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel;

  • Jer 34:19
    69%

    19heads of Judah, and heads of Jerusalem, the officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land those passing through between the pieces of the calf --

  • 2 Chr 29:24
    69%

    24and the priests slaughter them, and make a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel, for `For all Israel,' said the king, ``is' the burnt-offering and the sin-offering.'

  • Num 8:15
    69%

    15and afterwards do the Levites come in to serve the tent of meeting, and thou hast cleansed them, and hast waved them -- a wave-offering.

  • 2 Chr 30:5
    69%

    5and they establish the thing, to cause to pass over an intimation into all Israel, from Beer-Sheba even unto Dan, to come in to make a passover to Jehovah, God of Israel, in Jerusalem, for not for a long time had they done as it is written.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    69%

    11And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the sanctuary -- for all the priests who are present have sanctified themselves, there is none to watch by courses,

  • Exod 12:21
    69%

    21And Moses calleth for all the elders of Israel, and saith unto them, `Draw out and take for yourselves `from' the flock, for your families, and slaughter the passover-sacrifice;

  • 2 Chr 34:5
    69%

    5and the bones of the priests he hath burnt on their altars, and cleanseth Judah and Jerusalem,

  • 2 Kgs 23:21
    68%

    21And the king commandeth the whole of the people, saying, `Make ye a passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written on this book of the covenant.'

  • 2 Chr 29:5
    68%

    5And he saith to them, `Hear me, O Levites, now, sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the sanctuary,

  • Ezek 43:26
    68%

    26Seven days they purify the altar, and have cleansed it, and filled their hand.

  • Luke 22:7
    68%

    7And the day of the unleavened food came, in which it was behoving the passover to be sacrificed,