Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
At that time
Because
Bible References
At that time
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.
Because
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.)