Ezra 6:19

The Passover

19 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover.

Ezra 6:19 in Other Translations

19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

19 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover.

19 On April 21 the returned exiles celebrated Passover.

19 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover.

19 The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Ezra 6:19 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 6:19

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 Exodus 12:6 ) .

Ezra 6:19 In-Context

17 For the dedication of this house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred male lambs and, as a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, one for each of the tribes of Israel.

18 And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.

19 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover.

20 The priests and Levites had purified themselves and were all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their relatives the priests and for themselves.

21 So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 12:11; S Numbers 28:16