Ezra 6:16-21

New International Version

¹⁶ Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication^(A) of the house of God with joy. ¹⁷ For the dedication of this house of God they offered^(B) a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred male lambs and, as a sin offering^[a] for all Israel, twelve male goats, one for each of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁸ And they installed the priests in their divisions^(C) and the Levites in their groups^(D) for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.^(E)

The Passover

¹⁹ On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover.^{(F) 20} The priests and Levites had purified themselves and were all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered^(G) the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their relatives the priests and for themselves. ²¹ So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves^(H) from the unclean practices^(I) of their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the Lord,^(J) the God of Israel.