Ezra 6:17-19

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁷ This is the way they dedicated God’s Temple: They offered 100 bulls, 200 rams, and 400 male lambs. And they offered twelve male goats for all Israel for a sin offering. That is one goat for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. ¹⁸ Then they chose the priests in their groups and the Levites in their groups to serve in God’s Temple in Jerusalem. They did these things as it is written in the Book of Moses.

The Passover

^19 [a] On the fourteenth day of the first month,^[b] the Jews who came back from captivity celebrated the Passover.