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New King James Version

2 Chronicles 35:11

And they slaughtered the Passover offerings; and the priests sprinkled the blood with their hands, while the Levites skinned the animals.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Josiah;   Levites;   Liberality;   Passover;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Passover;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Apocrypha;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hilkiah;   Josiah;   Levites;   Passover;   Sacrifice;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   Preparation ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Flay, to;   Josiah ;   Ox, Oxen;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Josiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs, and while the Levites were skinning the animals, the priests splattered the blood they had been given.
Hebrew Names Version
They killed the Pesach, and the Kohanim sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
King James Version
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
English Standard Version
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.
New Century Version
The Passover lambs were killed. Then the Levites skinned the animals and gave the blood to the priests, who sprinkled it on the altar.
New English Translation
They slaughtered the Passover lambs and the priests splashed the blood, while the Levites skinned the animals.
Amplified Bible
They slaughtered the Passover lambs, and while the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned the animals.
New American Standard Bible
They slaughtered the Passover animals, and while the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned the animals.
World English Bible
They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they slewe the Passeouer, and the Priests sprinkled the blood with their handes, and the Leuites flayed them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they slaughtered the Passover animals, and while the priests splashed the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned them.
Berean Standard Bible
And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.
Contemporary English Version
Then the Levites killed and skinned the Passover lambs, and they handed some of the blood to the priests, who splattered it on the altar.
Complete Jewish Bible
They slaughtered the Pesach lamb; the cohanim splashed [the blood, which they received from the L'vi'im], and the L'vi'im skinned and butchered them.
Darby Translation
And they slaughtered the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Passover lambs were killed. Then the Levites skinned the animals and gave the blood to the priests. The priests sprinkled the blood on the altar.
George Lamsa Translation
And they killed the passover according to the kings command, and the priests sprinkled some of the blood.
Good News Translation
After the lambs and goats had been killed, the Levites skinned them, and the priests sprinkled the blood on the altar.
Lexham English Bible
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the sacrifices.
Literal Translation
And they slaughtered the passover offering and the priests sprinkled out of their hand, and the Levites were stripping;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they kylled the Passeouer, and the prestes toke it off their handes, and sprenkled it: and the Leuites toke the skynnes off them,
American Standard Version
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
Bible in Basic English
And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they slue passouer, and the priestes sprinckled the blood with their hande, and the Leuites pulled of the skinnes of the beastes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests dashed [the blood, which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
King James Version (1611)
And they killed the Passeouer, and the Priestes sprinckled the blood from their handes, and the Leuites flayed them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they slew the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the victims.
English Revised Version
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood, which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And preestis spreynten her hondis with blood, and dekenes drowen of the skynnes of sacrifices, and departiden tho sacrificis,
Update Bible Version
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] from their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
New Living Translation
The Levites then slaughtered the Passover lambs and presented the blood to the priests, who sprinkled the blood on the altar while the Levites prepared the animals.
New Life Bible
Then they killed the Passover animals. The religious leaders took the blood from them and put it on the altar. And the Levites cut the skins from the animals.
New Revised Standard
They slaughtered the passover lamb, and the priests dashed the blood that they received from them, while the Levites did the skinning.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they slaughtered the passover, and the priests dashed the blood received at their hand, and the Levites were flaying the offerings .
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the phase was immolated: and the priests sprinkled the blood with their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts:
Revised Standard Version
And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from them while the Levites flayed the victims.
Young's Literal Translation
and they slaughter the passover-offering, and the priests sprinkle out of their hand, and the Levites are striping;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They slaughtered the Passover animals, and while the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned them.

Contextual Overview

1 2 Kings 23:21-23">[xr] Now Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 And he set the priests in their duties and encouraged them for the service of the house of the LORD. 3 Then he said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to the LORD: "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. It shall no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel. 4 Prepare yourselves according to your fathers' houses, according to your divisions, following the written instruction of David king of Israel and the written instruction of Solomon his son. 5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your brethren the lay people, and according to the division of the father's house of the Levites. 6 So slaughter the Passover offerings, consecrate yourselves, and prepare them for your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses." 7 Then Josiah gave the lay people lambs and young goats from the flock, all for Passover offerings for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, as well as three thousand cattle; these were from the king's possessions. 8 And his leaders gave willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred from the flock, and three hundred cattle. 9 Also Conaniah, his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave to the Levites for Passover offerings five thousand from the flock and five hundred cattle. 10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's command.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the priests: 2 Chronicles 29:22-24, 2 Chronicles 30:16, Leviticus 1:5, Leviticus 1:6, Numbers 18:3, Numbers 18:7, Hebrews 9:21, Hebrews 9:22

flayed them: 2 Chronicles 29:34

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 23:28 - purifying Ezra 6:20 - killed Ezekiel 44:11 - shall slay Matthew 26:19 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Genesis 1:28">[fn]
Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
Genesis 13:16
And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.
Genesis 15:5
Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her."
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 22:17
blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
Genesis 28:14
Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 32:12
For You said, "I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude."'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they killed the passover,.... The lambs for the passover, which was done by the Levites:

and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands; which they received from the Levites, see 2 Chronicles 30:16.

and the Levites flayed them; the passover lambs, took off their skins.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references and note.

2 Chronicles 35:8

His princes - i. e. his ecclesiastical princes, the chief men of the priests and Levites. For the poor families of their own order the leading priests furnished both Passover-cattle and cattle for thank-offerings. The chief Levites acted similarly toward the poor Levitical families.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 35:11. They killed the passover — The people themselves might slay their own paschal lambs, and then present the blood to the priests, that they might sprinkle it before the altar; and the Levites flayed them, and made them ready for dressing.


 
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