Ezra 6:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Karena para imam dan orang-orang Lewi bersama-sama mentahirkan diri, sehingga tahirlah mereka sekalian. Demikianlah mereka menyembelih anak domba Paskah bagi semua orang yang pulang dari pembuangan, dan bagi saudara-saudara mereka, yakni para imam, dan bagi dirinya sendiri.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Karena para imam dan orang-orang Lewi bersama-sama mentahirkan diri, sehingga tahirlah mereka sekalian. Demikianlah mereka menyembelih anak domba Paskah bagi semua orang yang pulang dari pembuangan, dan bagi saudara-saudara mereka, yakni para imam, dan bagi dirinya sendiri.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena segala imam dan orang Lewipun sudah menyucikan dirinya seperti orang satu jua adanya, sucilah semuanya; maka disembelihkannyalah Pasah akan segala bani tawanan itu dan akan saudara-saudara mereka itu, yaitu segala imam, dan akan dirinya sendiripun.

Contextual Overview

¹³ Then Thathanai the captaine [of the countrey] beyond the water, & Stharbuzanai, with their counsailours, according to that which king Darius had sent, so they did speedyly their diligence. ¹⁴ And the elders of the Iewes builded, and they prospered through the prophecying of Aggeus the prophete and Zachari the sonne of Iddo, and they builded, and they finished it according to the commaundement of the God of Israel, and after the commaundement of Cyrus and Darius & Artaxerxes, kinges of Persia. ¹⁵ And this house was finished the third day of the moneth Adar, euen in the sixt yere of the raigne of king Darius. ¹⁶ And the childre of Israel, the priestes, the Leuites, and the other children of the captiuitie, helde the dedication of this house of God with ioy: ¹⁷ And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred oxen, two hudred rammes, foure hudred lambes: and for the reconciling of all Israel twelue hee goates, according to the number of the tribes of Israel: ¹⁸ And set the priestes in their sundry courses, and the Leuites in their diuers offices, to minister vnto God at Hierusalem, as it is written in the booke of Moyses. ¹⁹ And the children of the captiuitie held Passouer vpon the foureteenth day of the first moneth. ²⁰ For the priestes and Leuites were purified all together, & killed Passouer for all the children of the captiuitie, and for their brethren the priestes, and for them selues. ²¹ And the children of Israel which were come againe out of captiuitie, and all such as had seperated them selues vnto them from the filthinesse of the heathen of the lande, to seeke the Lorde God of Israel, did eate, ²² And helde the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes with ioy: For the Lorde had made them glad, and turned the heart of the king of Assur vnto them, to strengthen their handes in the worke of the house of God, euen the God of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

purified together: 2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 30:15-17

killed: Exodus 12:21, 2 Chronicles 35:11, Hebrews 7:27

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 35:6 - So kill Ezra 4:1 - children of the captivity Daniel 5:13 - the children

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.

Genesis 2:19
And so out of the grounde the Lorde God had shapen euery beast of the field, and euery foule of the ayre, and brought it vnto man, that he myght see howe he woulde call it. For lykewyse as man hym selfe named euery lyuyng thyng, euen so was the name therof.

Genesis 6:8
But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.

Genesis 6:11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie.

Genesis 6:12
And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.

Genesis 6:16
A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue: but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof. With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it.

Genesis 6:20
Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue.

John 5:40
And yet wyll ye not come to me, that ye myght haue lyfe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure,.... They were all to a man pure, and all purified as one man; all were of one mind to purify themselves, and took care to do it, and did it with as much dispatch as if only one man was purified; so that they were more generally prepared for service now than in the times of Hezekiah, 2 Chronicles 29:34

and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests and for themselves; which seems to have been done by the Levites, for themselves and for the priests, and for all the people, who were not so pure as the priests and Levites; or otherwise they might have killed it themselves, Exodus 12:6, as Bochart n thinks.

n Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 50. col. 576.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Some render, “And the priests were purified; and the Levites, as one man, were all of them pure.” A contrast is drawn between the universal purity of the Levites and the merely general purity of the priests 2Ch 29:34; 2 Chronicles 30:3, which made it fitting that the former should undertake the slaughter of all the Paschal lambs, even of those which the priests were to consume. In later times the ordinary practice was for each head of a family to kill for himself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. The Levites were purified together — They were all ready at one time to observe the proper rites and ceremonies, and had no need of having a second passover, which was appointed by the law for those who had been accidentally defiled, or were at a distance from the tabernacle. See 2 Chronicles 30:3.