以斯拉记 6:20

Chinese Union (Simplified)

原 来 ， 祭 司 和 利 未 人 一 同 自 洁 ， 无 一 人 不 洁 净 。 利 未 人 为 被 掳 归 回 的 众 人 和 他 们 的 弟 兄 众 祭 司 ， 并 为 自 己 宰 逾 越 节 的 羊 羔 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
祭司和利未人一起行潔淨儀式，他們就全都潔淨了；於是利未人為所有被擄歸回的人和他們作祭司的眾親族，以及他們自己，宰殺了逾越節的羊羔。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

purified together: 2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 30:15-17

killed: Exodus 12:21, 2 Chronicles 35:11, Hebrews 7:27

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 35:6 - So kill Ezra 4:1 - children of the captivity Daniel 5:13 - the children

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure,.... They were all to a man pure, and all purified as one man; all were of one mind to purify themselves, and took care to do it, and did it with as much dispatch as if only one man was purified; so that they were more generally prepared for service now than in the times of Hezekiah, 2 Chronicles 29:34

and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests and for themselves; which seems to have been done by the Levites, for themselves and for the priests, and for all the people, who were not so pure as the priests and Levites; or otherwise they might have killed it themselves, Exodus 12:6, as Bochart n thinks.

n Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 50. col. 576.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Some render, “And the priests were purified; and the Levites, as one man, were all of them pure.” A contrast is drawn between the universal purity of the Levites and the merely general purity of the priests 2Ch 29:34; 2 Chronicles 30:3, which made it fitting that the former should undertake the slaughter of all the Paschal lambs, even of those which the priests were to consume. In later times the ordinary practice was for each head of a family to kill for himself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. The Levites were purified together — They were all ready at one time to observe the proper rites and ceremonies, and had no need of having a second passover, which was appointed by the law for those who had been accidentally defiled, or were at a distance from the tabernacle. See 2 Chronicles 30:3.