Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

The killing

Bible References

The levites

2 Chronicles 29:34
But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.)
2 Chronicles 35:3
He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the Lord, "Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don't carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel!

The killing

Exodus 12:6
You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

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