1 Esdras 1:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ Take your positions in the temple according to your inherited priestly^[a] groups, serving before your people the Israelites. ⁶ Sacrifice the Passover lamb and prepare sacrifices for your people, and conduct the Passover ceremony according to the rules that the Lord gave to Moses.”

⁷ Josiah gave to the people a gift of thirty thousand lambs and kid goats and three thousand calves. These came as promised from the king’s own possessions to the people, priests, and Levites.