Bible Verses

They joyfully celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days. Their happiness came from the Lord turning the king of Assyria to look favorably on them, allowing them to continue rebuilding the house of the God of Israel.

The Israelites who had returned from exile ate the Passover lamb with all those who had separated themselves from the people of the land and joined the returned exiles to seek the Lord, the God of Israel. 

for the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, and all of them were clean. So, they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all who had returned from exile, for their fellow priests, and themselves.

Those who had returned from exile celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, 

Then they installed the priests according to their ranks, and the Levites according to their classes, for the service of the house of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.

offering on this solemnity one hundred young bulls, two hundred rams and four hundred lambs, and twelve he-goats as a sin offering for all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. 

The children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had returned from exile celebrated the consecration of this house of God with rejoicing, 

The house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the reign of Darius.