Esdras 6:20

La Bible Ostervald

Car les sacrificateurs et les Lévites s'étaient tous purifiés sans exception; et ils immolèrent la pâque pour tous les enfants de la captivité, pour leurs frères les sacrificateurs, et pour eux-mêmes.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
car les sacrificateurs et les l�vites s'�taient purifi�s comme un seul homme: ils �taient tous purs; et ils �gorg�rent la p�que pour tous les fils de la transportation, et pour leurs fr�res les sacrificateurs, et pour eux-m�mes.

Louis Segond (1910)
Les sacrificateurs et les L�vites s'�taient purifi�s de concert, tous �taient purs; ils immol�rent la P�que pour tous les fils de la captivit�, pour leurs fr�res les sacrificateurs, et pour eux-m�mes.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Car les Sacrificateurs s'�taient purifi�s avec les L�vites, de sorte qu'ils �taient tous nets, c'est pourquoi ils �gorg�rent la P�que pour tous ceux qui �taient retourn�s de la captivit�, et pour leurs fr�res les Sacrificateurs, et pour eux-m�mes.

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.