And stand in the Sanctuary according to the division of the families of your brethren [a]the children of the people, and after the division of the family of the Levites:

So kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and [b]prepare your brethren that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

Josiah also gave to the [c]people sheep, lambs and kids, all for the Passover, even to all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 35:5 Or, the people.
  2. 2 Chronicles 35:6 Exhort everyone to examine themselves, that they be not unmeet to eat of the Passover.
  3. 2 Chronicles 35:7 Hebrew, sons of the people.

“Stand in the holy place with a group of Levites for each subdivision of the families of your fellow Israelites, the lay people. Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves(A) and prepare the lambs for your fellow Israelites, doing what the Lord commanded through Moses.”

Josiah provided for all the lay people who were there a total of thirty thousand lambs and goats for the Passover offerings,(B) and also three thousand cattle—all from the king’s own possessions.(C)

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