4
and prepare
yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David, king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon, his son.
5
And stand in the sanctuary according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren, the people, and
after the division of the families of the Levites.
6
So kill the passover and sanctify yourselves and prepare your brethren, that
they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
7
And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks; these
were of the king’s substance.
8
And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand six hundred
sheep and three hundred oxen.
9
Conaniah, likewise, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, princes of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for the sacrifices of the passover five thousand
sheep, and five hundred oxen.
10
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites, likewise, in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
11
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled
the blood taken from the hands of the Levites
who flayed
them.
12
And they took away
part of the animals that they had for the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, for them to offer unto the LORD, as
it is written in the book of Moses. And
they did, likewise, with the oxen.
13
And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance, but that which had been sanctified, they cooked in pots and in caldrons and in pans and divided
them speedily among all the people.
14
And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were occupied in the sacrifice of the burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore, the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.