Ezra 6 · Verse 19

Ezra 6:19

And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
Ezra 6:19, King James Version

Ezra 6:19 in other translations

BSBOn the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.
WEBThe children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
ASVAnd the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
YLTAnd the sons of the captivity make the passover on the fourteenth of the first month,
DARBYAnd the children of the captivity held the passover upon the fourteenth of the first month.
BBEAnd the children of Israel who had come back kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
WebsterAnd the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

What does Ezra 6:19 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezra 6:13-22

The gospel church, that spiritual temple, is long in the building, but it will be finished at last, when the mystical body is completed. Every believer is a living temple, building up himself in his most holy faith: much opposition is given to this work by Satan and our own corruptions. We trifle, and proceed in it with many stops and pauses; but He that has begun the good work, will see it performed. Then spirits…

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Ezra 6:19 in the original Hebrew

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וַיַּעֲשׂ֥וּvai.ya.'a.Suand they celebratedH6213
בְנֵי\־ve.nei-[the] children ofH1121
הַגּוֹלָ֖הha.go.Lahthe exileH1473
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַפָּ֑סַחha.Pa.sachthe passoverH6453
בְּאַרְבָּעָ֥הbe.'ar.ba.'Ahon [day] four-H702
עָשָׂ֖ר'a.SarteenH6240
לַחֹ֥דֶשׁla.Cho.deshof the monthH2320
הָרִאשֽׁוֹן\׃ha.ri.Shonthe firstH7223

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezra 6:19

  • Exodus 12:6-36

    And 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. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. …

  • Joshua 5:10

    And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:1-27

    And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel. For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. 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. And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. …

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Context

  • Ezra 6:18

    And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

  • Ezra 6:19

    And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

  • Ezra 6:20

    For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

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Ezra 6:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y los de la transmigración hicieron la pascua á los catorce del mes primero.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et les fils de la transportation célébrèrent la Pâque le quatorzième jour du premier mois;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und die Kinder der Wegführung feierten das Passah am vierzehnten Tage des ersten Monats.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Fecerunt autem filii Israël transmigrationis Pascha, quartadecima die mensis primi.