Study Desk

^(w)The exiles observed the Passover on ^(x)the fourteenth of the first month.

^(y)For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure. Then ^(z)they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, both for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

The sons of Israel who returned from exile and ^(aa)all those who had separated themselves from ^(ab)the impurity of the nations of the land to join them, to seek the Lord God of Israel, ate the Passover.

And ^(ac)they observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had caused them to rejoice, and ^(ad)had turned the heart of ^(ae)the king of Assyria toward them to ^[t]encourage them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.