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3 For they could not keep it at xtnat xtime, because the priests had not sanc- tifled_themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered_themselves_ Ropesicr to Jerusalem.
And the thing pleased the king and all the 4s congregation.
5 So they established a decree to make proclamation” throughout all Israél, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should_come to keep the passover unto Jthe Lorp =God_of Israél at Jerusalem : for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was_written. r
6 So the r posts went with the letters from ‘the king and his princes through- out all Israél and Judah, and accord- ing_to the_.commandment_of the king, saying, “ Ye_s children_of Israél, -turn_ again unto? the Lorp=God_of Abraham, Isaac, and Israél, and He -will_return to the remnant of you, that are_escaped out_of the_hand_of the_kings_of As- syria.
7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against “the Lorp =God_of their fathers, who therefore gave_them_up to desola- tion, ac as pe see.
8 Now tbe ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but g*yield yourselves unto ‘the Lorp, and -enter_into His sanc- tuary, which He -hath_sanctified for ever ; and sserve /+the Lorp your =God, that the_fierceness_of His wrath may_ turn_away from you.
9 Forif ye turn_again unto ! the Lorn, your brethren and your s children shall
find compassion before +them_that_
lead_them_captive, so that they shall_ come_again into xthis LorD your =God ts gracious and merci- ful, and will not turn_away His face from you, if ye return unto Him.”
10So the r posts w*4passed from city to city through the_country_of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun : but they &-:laughed them to_scorn, and m 4aynocked them.
ll Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled_ themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
2 Also in Judah the_hand_of x=God was to give them one heart to do the_ commandment_of the king and of the princes, by the_word_of J the Lorp.
18 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep -the_feast_of x=un- leavened_bread in the second xmonth, a very great as congregation.
14 And they arose and took away «the altars that were in Jerusalem, and «all the altars_for_incense took_they_away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
1 Then they killed the passover on the. fourteenth day of the second xmonth: and the priests and the Le- vites were_ashamed, and sanctified_ themselves, and brought_in the a burnt_ offerings into the_house_of / the Lorp.
16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according_to the_law_of Moses the_t man_of x=God: the priests +sprinkled -the blood, which they re- ceived of the_hand_of the Levites.
17 For there were many in the «s con- gregation that were not sanctified:
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