³ For they could not keep it ^(A)at ^[a]the regular time, ^(B)because a sufficient number of priests had not consecrated themselves, nor had the people gathered together at Jerusalem.

¹⁵ Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites ^[a]were ^(A)ashamed, and ^[b]sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.