Preparation and the Passover Sacrifice

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And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the solemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:

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And they arose and destroyed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and took away all things in which incense was burnt to idols and cast them into the torrent Cedron.

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And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified offered holocausts in the house of the Lord.

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And they stood in their order according to the disposition and law of Moses the man of God: but the priests received the blood which was to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,

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Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the Levites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be sanctified to the Lord.

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For a great part of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and Issachar, and Zabulon, that had not been sanctified, ate the phase otherwise than it is written: and Ezechias prayed for them, saying: The Lord who is good will shew mercy,

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To all them, who with their whole heart, seek the Lord the God of their fathers: and will not impute it to them that they are not sanctified.

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And the Lord heard him, and was merciful to the people.

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