Ezra 6:19

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

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 At the dedication of this house of God, they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a purification offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

18 They set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the scroll from Moses.

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

20 All of the priests and the Levites had purified themselves; all of them were clean. They slaughtered the Passover animals for all the returned exiles, their fellow priests, and themselves.

21 The Israelites who had returned from exile, together with all those who had joined them by separating themselves from the pollutions of the nations of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel, ate the Passover meal.

Footnotes

• [a]. Heb resumes with this verse.
• [b]. March–April, Nisan