2 Chronicles 35:6
New International Version
Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves and prepare the lambs for your fellow Israelites, doing what the LORD commanded through Moses.”

New Living Translation
Slaughter the Passover lambs, purify yourselves, and prepare to help those who come. Follow all the directions that the LORD gave through Moses.”

English Standard Version
And slaughter the Passover lamb, and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses.”

Berean Standard Bible
Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your fellow countrymen to carry out the word of the LORD given by Moses.”

King James Bible
So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

New King James Version
So slaughter the Passover offerings, consecrate yourselves, and prepare them for your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.”

New American Standard Bible
Now slaughter the Passover animals, keep one another consecrated, and prepare for your countrymen to act in accordance with the word of the LORD by Moses.”

NASB 1995
“Now slaughter the Passover animals, sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses.”

NASB 1977
“Now slaughter the Passover animals, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Now slaughter the Passover animals, sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brothers to do according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.”

Amplified Bible
Slaughter the Passover lambs and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your fellow countrymen to carry out (obey) the word of the LORD given by Moses.”

Christian Standard Bible
Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your brothers to carry out the word of the LORD through Moses.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your brothers to carry out the word of the LORD through Moses.”

American Standard Version
And kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of Jehovah by Moses.

Contemporary English Version
When the people bring you their Passover lamb, you must kill it and prepare it to be sacrificed to the LORD. Make sure the people celebrate according to the instructions that the LORD gave Moses, and don't do anything to make yourselves unclean and unacceptable.

English Revised Version
And kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Slaughter the Passover lamb, perform the ceremonies to make yourselves holy, and prepare [the lambs] for the other Israelites as the LORD instructed [us] through Moses."

Good News Translation
You are to kill the Passover lambs and goats. Now make yourselves ritually clean and prepare the sacrifices in order that your fellow Israelites may follow the instructions which the LORD gave through Moses."

International Standard Version
Now slaughter the Passover, consecrate yourselves, and prepare your relatives to obey the command from the LORD given by Moses."

Majority Standard Bible
Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your fellow countrymen to carry out the word of the LORD given by Moses.?

NET Bible
Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to do what the LORD commanded through Moses."

New Heart English Bible
Kill the Passover lamb, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses."

Webster's Bible Translation
So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

World English Bible
Kill the Passover lamb, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to Yahweh’s word by Moses.”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and slaughter the Passover-offering and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of YHWH by the hand of Moses.”

Young's Literal Translation
and slaughter the passover-offering and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of Jehovah by the hand of Moses.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And slaughter ye the passover and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of Jehovah by the hand of Moses.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And having been sanctified, immolate the Passover. And then prepare your brothers, so that they may be able to act in accord with the words which the Lord has spoken by the hand of Moses.”

New American Bible
Slaughter the Passover sacrifice, sanctify yourselves, and be at the disposition of your kin, that all may be done according to the word of the LORD given through Moses.”

New Revised Standard Version
Slaughter the passover lamb, sanctify yourselves, and on behalf of your kindred make preparations, acting according to the word of the LORD by Moses.”
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And kill the passover and sanctify yourselves and prepare the hearts of your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And kill the Passover and be hallowed and prepare the heart of your brethren, that they will do just as LORD JEHOVAH spoke with your brethren.”
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And kill the passover lamb, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And kill ye the passover, and prepare it for your brethren, to do according to the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Josiah Restores the Passover
5Moreover, stand in the Holy Place by the divisions of the families of your kinsmen the lay people, and by the divisions of the families of the Levites. 6Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your fellow countrymen to carry out the word of the LORD given by Moses.” 7From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.…

Cross References
Exodus 12:21-27
Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb. / Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning. / When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. ...

Deuteronomy 16:1-8
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. / You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name. / You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt. ...

2 Kings 23:21-23
The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.” / No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah. / But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Leviticus 23:4-8
These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. / The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. / On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. ...

Numbers 9:1-5
In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai: / “The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time. / You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.” ...

1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. / Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Matthew 26:17-19
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?” / He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.’” / So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.

Mark 14:12-16
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?” / So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him, / and whichever house he enters, say to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is My guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’ ...

Luke 22:7-13
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed. / Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.” / “Where do You want us to prepare it?” they asked. ...

John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Hebrews 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.

Exodus 12:3-11
Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household. / If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly. / Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats. ...

1 Peter 1:19
but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

John 19:36
Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.


Treasury of Scripture

So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brothers, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

So kill

2 Chronicles 30:15-17
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…

Exodus 12:6,21,22
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening…

Ezra 6:20,21
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…

sanctify

2 Chronicles 29:5,15,34
And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place

2 Chronicles 30:3,15-19
For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem…

Genesis 35:2
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

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Slaughter the Passover lambs
The act of slaughtering the Passover lambs is deeply rooted in the Hebrew tradition, originating from the Exodus narrative where the Israelites were commanded to sacrifice a lamb and mark their doorposts with its blood. The Hebrew word for "slaughter" (שָׁחַט, shachat) implies a ritualistic and sacred act, emphasizing the solemnity and obedience required in this practice. This act is a foreshadowing of the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29). Historically, this ritual was a communal event, reinforcing the unity and shared faith of the Israelite community.

Consecrate yourselves
The call to consecrate (קָדַשׁ, qadash) oneself is a call to holiness and purification. In the context of the Passover, it signifies a preparation of heart and spirit, setting oneself apart for the service and worship of God. This act of consecration is not merely external but involves an internal dedication to God’s purposes. It reflects the broader biblical theme of holiness, where believers are called to be set apart for God’s service, echoing the New Testament call for Christians to be holy as God is holy (1 Peter 1:16).

Prepare the lambs for your fellow Israelites
The preparation of the lambs for the fellow Israelites underscores the communal and interdependent nature of worship in the Israelite community. The Hebrew word for "prepare" (עָרַךְ, arak) suggests an orderly and intentional arrangement, ensuring that each family is provided for. This phrase highlights the responsibility of the priests and Levites to serve the people, ensuring that everyone can participate in the Passover. It is a reminder of the Christian call to serve one another in love, as seen in Galatians 5:13.

According to the word of the LORD through Moses
This phrase emphasizes the divine authority and instruction behind the Passover observance. The "word of the LORD" (דְּבַר־יְהוָה, devar-YHWH) through Moses signifies the covenantal relationship between God and His people, where Moses serves as the mediator of God’s commands. It underscores the importance of obedience to God’s revealed will, as given through His prophets and leaders. This obedience is a central theme throughout Scripture, where blessings are tied to adherence to God’s commands, as seen in Deuteronomy 28.

(6) And sanctify yourselves.--Probably by washing the hands before handing the blood of sprinkling to the priests. (See 2Chronicles 30:16 seq.)

Prepare your brethren.--Prepare (the passover) for your brethren of the laity.

That they may do.--So as to do. The Levites themselves are to obey the prescriptions of the Mosaic Law.

Verse 6. - Prepare your brethren; i.e. as betokened by the wording of the foregoing verse, their brethren, the people. The Levites were to purify themselves, perform their other duties of killing the victims, and withal to use their opportunities of instructing the people to the better order and performance of the whole solemn service.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Slaughter
וְשַׁחֲט֖וּ (wə·ša·ḥă·ṭū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7819: To slaughter, beat

the Passover lambs,
הַפָּ֑סַח (hap·pā·saḥ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6453: A pretermission, exemption, Passover

consecrate yourselves,
וְהִתְקַדְּשׁוּ֙ (wə·hiṯ·qad·də·šū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 6942: To be set apart or consecrated

and make preparations
וְהָכִ֣ינוּ (wə·hā·ḵî·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 3559: To be erect

for your fellow countrymen
לַאֲחֵיכֶ֔ם (la·’ă·ḥê·ḵem)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 251: A brother, )

to carry out
לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

the word
כִּדְבַר־ (kiḏ·ḇar-)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

[given] by
בְּיַד־ (bə·yaḏ-)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3027: A hand

Moses.”
מֹשֶֽׁה׃ (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver


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