2 Chronicles 30:3
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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.since they had been unable to observe it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.
In other translations
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.since they had been unable to observe it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.
Hebrew words
כִּיkiforH3588לֹאlo'notH3808יָכְלוּyakheluthey had been ableH3201לַעֲשֹׂתוֹla'asototo observe itH6213בָּעֵתba'etat the timeH6256הַהִיאhahi'<the> thatH1931כִּיkiforH3588הַכֹּהֲנִיםhakohanimthe priestsH3548לֹא־lo'-notH3808הִתְקַדְּשׁוּhitkadeshuthey had consecrated themselvesH6942לְמַדַּיlemadaito <from> [what] [was] sufficiencyH4100וְהָעָםveha'amand the peopleH5971לֹא־lo'-notH3808נֶאֶסְפוּne'esfuthey had gatheredH622לִירוּשָׁלִָם׃lirushalimto JerusalemH3389
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Related verses
- 2 Chronicles 29:34But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had been consecrated. For the Levites had been more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.
- Exodus 12:6And 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.You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
- Exodus 12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
- 2 Chronicles 29:17Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
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People and places
Places: Jerusalem