Ezra 6:19-22
The Jews eat the Passover feast
19 On the 14th day of the first month, the people ate the Passover feast. 20 The priests and Levites had all made themselves clean for their special work. The Levites killed the lambs for the Passover sacrifice. They did that on behalf of all the people, the priests and themselves.
6:19The Passover Festival was to help the Israelites to remember how God had saved them from Egypt. They had been slaves in Egypt. See Numbers 28:16-25; Exodus 12:14-20. 21 So all the people who had returned from Babylon ate the feast. Other Israelites in Jerusalem had turned away from the bad things that other nations who lived there did. They had decided to worship the Lord, Israel's God. So they also ate the feast. 22 Then they ate the Feast of Flat Bread for seven days. The Lord had caused them to be very happy, because the king of Assyria had helped them. The Lord had made the king think in a different way about the Jews in Jerusalem. He had decided to help them to build the God of Israel's temple.
6:22The Feast of Flat Bread began the day after the Passover Festival. Flat bread is bread that has no yeast in it.
