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2 Chronicles 30:3

2 Chronicles chapter 30 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

Context

v.2For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

v.3This passage

v.4And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 12:6

    and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:34

    But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt-offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:17

    Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Jehovah; and they sanctified the house of Jehovah in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

  • Exodus 12:18

    In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.