2 Chronicles 35:6

6 Slaughter the Passover lambs and prepare the holy sacrifices for your relatives in order to celebrate according to the LORD's word through Moses."

2 Chronicles 35:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 35:6

So kill the passover
In the manner, time, and place, and for the persons it should be killed:

and sanctify yourselves:
by washing themselves and garments, that they might be fit for this service:

and prepare your brethren;
prepare a lamb for your brethren, or instruct them how to perform their office that needed instruction:

that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of
Moses;
celebrate the ordinance of the passover in all its rites, according to the law of Moses, at least in every rite in which they were more peculiarly concerned.

2 Chronicles 35:6 In-Context

4 Organize yourselves by families according to your divisions, as directed by Israel's King David and his son Solomon.

5 Stand in the sanctuary, according to the family divisions of your relatives the laypeople, so that there can be Levites for each family division.

6 Slaughter the Passover lambs and prepare the holy sacrifices for your relatives in order to celebrate according to the LORD's word through Moses."

7 On behalf of the laypeople, Josiah donated from his personal holdings thirty thousand lambs and young goats, and three thousand bulls, all for the Passover offerings.

8 His officials also provided spontaneous gift offerings for the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the ones in charge of God's temple, gave two thousand six hundred Passover lambs and three hundred bulls for the priests.

Footnotes

• [a]. Correction; cf 1 Esdr 1:6; MT and sanctify yourselves