Ezra 6:19

19 On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles kept 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 They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

18 And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

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

20 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they killed the passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves;

21 it was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the pollutions of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.