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10 When everything was ready to celebrate Passover, the priests and the Levites stood where Josiah had told them. 11 Then the Levites killed and skinned the Passover lambs, and they handed some of the blood to the priests, who splattered it on the altar. 12 The Levites set aside the parts of the animal that the worshipers needed for their sacrifices to please the Lord,[a] just as the Law of Moses required. They also did the same thing with the bulls.

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Footnotes

  1. 35.12 sacrifices to please the Lord: See the note at 1.6.

10 The service was arranged and the priests stood in their places with the Levites in their divisions(A) as the king had ordered.(B) 11 The Passover lambs were slaughtered,(C) and the priests splashed against the altar the blood handed to them, while the Levites skinned the animals. 12 They set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the subdivisions of the families of the people to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the Book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.

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