2Ch 30:17-18 | ESV | STEP | For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean , to consecrate it to the Lord .

2 Chronicles 30:17-18

17 For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the Lord. 18 For a majority of the people, ^amany of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise ^bthan as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone