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.