10. The people of Israel who had returned from exile celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month of the following year. The priests and Levites had purified themselves at the same time.
11. Not all the Jews who had returned purified themselves at that time, but the Levites did.
12. The Levites killed the animals for the Passover sacrifices for all the people who had returned, for the priests, and for themselves.