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Ezra 6:19

The exiles observed the 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.
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.
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

13 Then Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and their colleagues acted accordingly—with precision, just as Darius the king had given instructions. 14 The elders of the Jews continued building and prospering, while at the same time Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo continued prophesying. They built and brought it to completion by the command of the God of Israel and by the command of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15 They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. 16 The people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—observed the dedication of this temple of God with joy. 17 For the dedication of this temple of God they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. 18 They appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their divisions over the worship of God at Jerusalem, in accord with the book of Moses. 19 The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 20 The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues the priests, and for themselves. 21 The Israelites who were returning from the exile ate it, along with all those who had joined them in separating themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to seek the Lord God of Israel. 22 They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the Lord had given them joy and had changed the opinion of the king of Assyria toward them, so that he assisted them in the work on the temple of God, 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 humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
Genesis 6:3
So the Lord said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord .
Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
Genesis 6:16
Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.
Genesis 8:17
Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!"
Psalms 36:6
Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.

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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