1. Josiah commanded that Passover be celebrated in Jerusalem to honour the Lord. So, on the fourteenth day of the first month, the lambs were killed for the Passover celebration.
2. On that day, Josiah made sure the priests knew what duties they were to do in the temple.
3. He called together the Levites who served the Lord and who taught the people his laws, and he said:No longer will you have to carry the sacred chest from place to place. It will stay in the temple built by King Solomon son of David, where you will serve the Lord and his people Israel.
4. Get ready to do the work that David and Solomon assigned to you, according to your clans.
5. Divide yourselves into groups, then arrange yourselves throughout the temple so that each family of worshippers will be able to get help from one of you.
6. When the people bring you their Passover lamb, you must kill it and prepare it to be sacrificed to the Lord. Make sure the people celebrate according to the instructions that the Lord gave Moses, and don't do anything to make yourselves unclean and unacceptable.
7. Josiah donated thirty thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand bulls from his own flocks and herds for the people to offer as sacrifices.
8. Josiah's officials also voluntarily gave some of their animals to the people, the priests, and the Levites as sacrifices. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, who were the officials in charge of the temple, gave the priests twenty-six hundred sheep and lambs and three hundred bulls to sacrifice during the Passover celebration.