The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”
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- KJV And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
- BSB The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
- ESV And the king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
- NKJV Then the king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
- NASB Then the king commanded all the people, saying, “Celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
- NLT King Josiah then issued this order to all the people: “You must celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, as required in this Book of the Covenant.”
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- Deut 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Num 9:2–5“Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
- Exod 12:3–20Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
- Lev 23:5–8In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- Num 28:16–25“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- 2 Chr 35:1–19Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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