2Chronicles:35:1-19

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* And Josiah held a passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem ; and they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the first month . * And he set the priests in their charges , and encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah . * And he said to the Levites , that taught all Israel , [and ] who were holy to Jehovah , Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David , king of Israel , built ; ye have not to carry it upon your shoulders . Serve now Jehovah your God , and his people Israel ; * and prepare yourselves by your fathers ' houses , in your divisions , according to the writing of David king of Israel , and according to the writing of Solomon his son ; * and stand in the sanctuary for the classes of the fathers ' houses , for your brethren , the children of the people , and [according ] to the divisions of the fathers ' houses of the Levites ; * and slaughter the passover , and hallow yourselves , and prepare it for your brethren , that they may do according to the word of Jehovah through Moses . * And Josiah gave for the children of the people a heave-offering of the flocks , lambs and goats , all for the passover-offerings , for all that were present -- to the number of thirty thousand , and three thousand bullocks : these were of the king 's substance . * And his princes gave a voluntary heave-offering for the people , for the priests , and for the Levites : Hilkijah and Zechariah and Jehiel , rulers of the house of God , gave to the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand six hundred [small cattle ] and three hundred oxen ; * and Conaniah , and Shemaiah and Nethaneel , his brethren , and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad , chief of the Levites , gave as heave-offering to the Levites for the passover-offerings five thousand [small cattle ] and five hundred oxen . * And the service was prepared , and the priests stood in their place , and the Levites in their divisions , according to the king 's commandment . * And they slaughtered the passover , and the priests sprinkled [the blood ] from their hand , and the Levites flayed them . * And they set apart the burnt-offerings to give them to the classes of the fathers ' houses of the children of the people , to present them to Jehovah , as it is written in the book of Moses . And so [did they ] with the oxen . * And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance ; and the consecrated things they boiled in pots and in cauldrons and in pans , and divided them speedily among all the children of the people . * And afterwards they made ready for themselves and for the priests ; because the priests , the sons of Aaron , [were engaged ] in offering up the burnt-offerings and the fat until night ; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves , and for the priests , the sons of Aaron . * And the singers , the sons of Asaph , were in their place , according to the commandment of David , and Asaph , and Heman , and Jeduthun the king 's seer ; and the doorkeepers were at every gate ; they had not to depart from their service , for their brethren the Levites prepared for them . * And all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day , to hold the passover , and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Jehovah according to the commandment of king Josiah . * And the children of Israel that were present held the passover at that time , and the feast of unleavened bread seven days . * And there was no passover like to that holden in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet ; neither did all the kings of Israel hold such a passover as Josiah held , and the priests , and the Levites , and all Judah and Israel that were present , and the inhabitants of Jerusalem . * In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover holden .

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