King James Version
Ezra 6:19 in the King James Version says “And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.” — study this verse from Ezra chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.”
Ezra 6:19 · KJV
And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses. as it is: Chaldee, according to the writing
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
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.
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the passover”
H6453a pretermission, i.e., exemption; used only techically of the jewish passover (the festival or the victim)
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