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Ezr 6:20 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

purified together		2Ch 29:34; 2Ch 30:15-17
killed		Exd 12:21; 2Ch 35:11; Hbr 7:27

Correlating Passages

purified together

	2Ch 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 [other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites [were] more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
	2Ch 30:15	Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
	2Ch 30:16	And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.
	2Ch 30:17	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.

killed

	Exd 12:21	Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
	2Ch 35:11	And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
	Hbr 7:27	Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

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Scott, Thomas. "Ezra 6:20," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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