Ezra 6:19-21

Contemporary English Version

The Passover

^19 (A) Everyone who had returned from exile celebrated Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.^{[a] 20} The priests and Levites had gone through a ceremony to make themselves acceptable to lead in worship. Then some of them killed Passover lambs for those who had returned, including the other priests and themselves.

²¹ The sacrifices were eaten by the Israelites who had returned and by the neighboring people who had given up the sinful customs of other nations in order to worship the Lord God of Israel.