⁵“Stand at the temple. Stand there with a group of Levites for each group of families among your people. ⁶Kill the Passover lambs. Set yourselves apart to the Lord. Prepare the lambs for your people. Do what the Lord commanded through Moses.”

⁷Josiah provided animals for the Passover offerings. He gave them for all of the people who were there. He gave a total of 30,000 sheep and goats and 3,000 head of cattle. He gave all of them from his own possessions.

⁸His officials also gave freely. They gave to the people and the priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah and Jehiel were in charge of God’s temple. They gave the priests 2,600 Passover lambs and 300 head of cattle. ⁹Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel also gave offerings. So did Hashabiah, Jeiel and Jozabad. All of them were the leaders of the Levites. They gave 5,000 Passover lambs and 500 head of cattle for the Levites.

¹⁰The Passover service was arranged. The priests stood in their places. The Levites were in their groups. That’s what the king had ordered.

¹¹The Passover lambs were killed. The priests sprinkled the blood that had been handed to them. The Levites skinned the animals.

¹²They set the burnt offerings to one side. Those offerings were for the smaller family groups of the people to offer to the Lord. That’s what was written in the Scroll of Moses. The Levites did the same thing with the cattle.

¹³They cooked the Passover animals over the fire, just as the law required. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, large kettles and pans. They served the offerings quickly to all of the people.

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