Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

Bible References

Purified together

2 Chronicles 29:34
Only the priests were too few, and they could not flay all the burnt-offerings; therefore their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had hallowed themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to hallow themselves than the priests.
2 Chronicles 30:15
And they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the second month; and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and hallowed themselves; and they brought the burnt-offerings into the house of Jehovah.

Killed

Exodus 12:21
And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Seize and take yourselves lambs for your families, and kill the passover.
2 Chronicles 35:11
And they slaughtered the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
Hebrews 7:27
who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all in having offered up himself.