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Contemporary English Version

Ezra 6:19

Everyone who had returned from exile celebrated Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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

13 Governor Tattenai, Shethar Bozenai, and their advisors carefully obeyed King Darius. 14 With great success the Jewish leaders continued working on the temple, while Haggai and Zechariah encouraged them by their preaching. And so, the temple was completed at the command of the God of Israel and by the orders of kings Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes of Persia. 15 On the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the rule of Darius, the temple was finished. 16 The people of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and everyone else who had returned from exile were happy and celebrated as they dedicated God's temple. 17 One hundred bulls, two hundred rams, and four hundred lambs were offered as sacrifices at the dedication. Also twelve goats were sacrificed as sin offerings for the twelve tribes of Israel. 18 Then the priests and Levites were assigned their duties in God's temple in Jerusalem, according to the instructions Moses had written. 19 Everyone who had returned from exile celebrated Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 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. 22 For seven days they celebrated the Festival of Thin Bread. Everyone was happy because the Lord God of Israel had made sure that the king of Assyria would be kind to them and help them build the temple.

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 6:3
Then the Lord said, "I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than one hundred twenty years."
Genesis 6:8
But the Lord was pleased with Noah,
Genesis 6:9
and this is the story about him. Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God.
Genesis 6:15
Make it four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
Genesis 6:16
Build a roof on the boat and leave a space of about eighteen inches between the roof and the sides. Make the boat three stories high and put a door on one side.
Genesis 8:17
Let out the birds, animals, and reptiles, so they can mate and live all over the earth."
Psalms 36:6
Your decisions are always fair. They are firm like mountains, deep like the sea, and all people and animals are under your care.

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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