²⁵ And all the people of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and those who had come from Israel, and men from other lands who had come from Israel or who were living in Judah, were glad with great joy.

¹¹ However, some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem.

¹⁸ For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone

⁴³ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is to take of it:

⁴⁴ But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

⁴⁵ A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it.

⁴⁶ It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken.

⁴⁷ All Israel is to keep the feast.

⁴⁸ And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.

⁴⁹ The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from a strange country who is living with you.

¹⁰ Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.

¹¹ Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

⁴ For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

³⁴ Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.