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And the king took counsel, and his princes, and the whole congregation in Jerusalem, to hold the passover in the second month.

For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not hallowed themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people been gathered together to Jerusalem.

And the thing pleased the king and the whole congregation.

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