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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Ezra 6:19

On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Liberality;   Passover;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Feast of the Passover, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeshua;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Darius;   Ezra, Book of;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover;   Passover (I.);   Thessalonians Epistles to the;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Passover;   Priests and Levites;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esdras, Books of;   Passover;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Hebrew Names Version
The children of the captivity kept the Pesach on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
King James Version
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
English Standard Version
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover.
New Century Version
The Jewish people who returned from captivity celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
New English Translation
The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Amplified Bible
The [former] exiles kept the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
New American Standard Bible
The exiles held the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.
World English Bible
The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the childre of the captiuitie kept the Passeouer on ye fourtenth day of the first moneth.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the exiles celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.
Contemporary English Version
Everyone who had returned from exile celebrated Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Complete Jewish Bible
The people from the exile kept Pesach on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Darby Translation
And the children of the captivity held the passover upon the fourteenth of the first month.
Easy-to-Read Version
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the Jews who came back from captivity celebrated the Passover.
George Lamsa Translation
And the exiles celebrated the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Good News Translation
The people who had returned from exile celebrated Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month of the following year.
Lexham English Bible
On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles observed the Passover feast.
Literal Translation
And the sons of the exile performed the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the children of the captyuite helde Passeouer vpon the fourtenth daye of the first moneth:
American Standard Version
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
Bible in Basic English
And the children of Israel who had come back kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the children of the captiuitie held Passouer vpon the foureteenth day of the first moneth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
King James Version (1611)
And the children of the captiuitie kept the Passeouer, vpon the fourteenth day of the first moneth:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of the captivity kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
English Revised Version
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the sones of transmygracioun maden pask, in the fourtenthe dai of the firste monethe.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of the captivity kept the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
New King James Version
Deuteronomy 16:1-8">[xr] And the descendants of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
New Living Translation
On April 21 the returned exiles celebrated Passover.
New Life Bible
The people who had returned from Babylon kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
New Revised Standard
On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles kept the passover.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the Sons of the Exile kept the passover, - on the fourteenth of the first month;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Revised Standard Version
On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles kept the passover.
Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of the captivity make the passover on the fourteenth of the first month,
THE MESSAGE
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.

Contextual Overview

13In response, Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed. 14So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia. 15And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. 16Then the people of Israel-the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles-celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy. 17For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel. 18They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses. 19On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.20All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves. 21The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land, in order to seek the LORD, the God of Israel. 22For seven days they observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the children: Ezra 6:16

kept: Exodus 12:6-36, Joshua 5:10, 2 Chronicles 30:1 - 2 Chronicles 35:27

Reciprocal: Numbers 9:2 - his appointed 2 Chronicles 35:1 - the fourteenth Ezra 4:1 - children of the captivity Daniel 5:13 - the children

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:3
So the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years."
Genesis 6:8
Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
Genesis 6:16
You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
Genesis 8:17
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you-birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground-so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it."
Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your judgments like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month. The month Nisan or Abib, which was the month following that in which the temple was finished, Ezra 6:15, this passover was kept at the exact time the law commanded, Exodus 12:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With this verse the writer resumes the use of the Hebrew language, which he had discarded for the Chaldee from Ezra 4:8. With the exception of the letter of Artaxerxes Ezra 7:12-26, all the remainder of the book is in Hebrew.


 
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