Ezra 6:20 Cross References - CLV

²⁰ For the priests and the Levites had cleansed themselves as one man; all of them were clean. Then they slayed the passover for all the sons of the deportation and for their brother priests and for themselves.

²¹ Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them: Draw out and take for yourselves from the flock for your families, and slay the passover.

³⁴ Only, the priests have become few, and have not been able to strip the whole of the burnt-offerings, and their brethren the Levites strengthen them till the completion of the work, and till the priests sanctify themselves, for the Levites [are] more upright of heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

¹⁵ and they slaughter the passover-offering on the fourteenth of the second month, and the priests and the Levites have been ashamed, and sanctify themselves, and bring in burnt-offerings to the house of Yahweh. ¹⁶ And they stand on their station according to their ordinance; according to the law of Moses the man of Elohim the priests are sprinkling the blood out of the hand of the Levites, ¹⁷ for many [are] in the assembly who have not sanctified themselves, and the Levites [are] over the slaughtering of the passover-offerings for every one not clean, to sanctify [him] to Yahweh.

¹¹ and they slaughter the passover-offering, and the priests sprinkle out of their hand, and the Levites are striping;"

²⁷ Who has no necessity daily, even as the chief priests, to be offering up sacrifices previously for their own sins, thereupon for those of the people, for this He does once for all time, offering up Himself."