3rd Ezra 1:6-37

⁶Offer ye pask, and maketh ready the sacrifices to your brethren; and do ye after the behest of the Lord, that is given to Moses.

⁷And Josiah gave to the folk that was found there, sheep, of lambs, and of kids, and of she-goats, thirty thousand; calves, three thousand.

⁸These gifts be given of the king’s own things, after the behest of the Lord to the people, and to priests, into pask; sheep in number two thousand, and calves an hundred.

⁹And Jeconiah, and Samaeas, and Nathanael, his brother, and Sabias, and Ochiel, and Joram, gave into pask, five thousand sheep, and five hundred calves.

¹⁰And when these things were nobly done, the priests and deacons or Levites stood, having therf loaves by lineages.

¹¹And after the parts of the prince-hood of fathers, they offered to the Lord in the sight of the people, after those things that be written in the book of Moses.

¹²And they roasted the pask with fire, as it behooved; and they soddened hosts in seething vessels and in pots, with well-willing.

¹³And they brought it to all that there were of the folk; and after these things they made ready to themselves and to priests.

¹⁴Forsooth the priests offered inner fatness or tallow, unto the hour was ended; and deacons prepared or Levites made ready to themselves, and to their brethren, and to the sons of Aaron.

¹⁵And men sacrificing or the sacrificers offered their daughters, after the order and the behests of David; and Asaph, and Zechariah, and Eddinus, that was of the king;

¹⁶and the porters by all the gates offered, so that none passed his gate. Forsooth their brethren prepared to them.

¹⁷And so those things, that pertained to the sacrifice of the Lord, be ended. In that day they did pask,

¹⁸and offered hosts upon the sacrifice of the Lord, after the behest of king Josiah.

¹⁹And the sons of Israel, that were found present, did in that time pask, and the feast day of therf loaves by seven days.

²⁰And there was not solemnized such a pask in Israel, from the times of Samuel, the prophet.

²¹And all the kings of Israel hallowed not such a pask, as did Josiah, and the priests, and deacons or Levites, and Jews, and all Israel, that were found in the commemoration, or mind -making, at Jerusalem.

²²In the eighteenth year, Josiah reigning, this pask was hallowed.

²³And the works of Josiah be made right in the sight of the Lord, in full dreading heart;

²⁴and those things forsooth that were about him be written, in the rather times of them that sinned, and the which were unreligious against the Lord, before, or more than, all heathen folk, and the which sinners sought not the words of the Lord upon Israel.

²⁵And after all this deed of Josiah, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, went up, coming to cast away in Carchemish upon Euphrates; and Josiah went into meeting to him.

²⁶And the king of Egypt sent to Josiah, saying, What is to me and to thee, king of Judea?

²⁷I am not sent of the Lord, upon Euphrates forsooth is my battle; hastily therefore go down.

²⁸And Josiah was not turned again upon the chariot, but he enforced him to overcome Pharaoh, not taking heed to the word of the prophet, from the mouth of the Lord;

²⁹but he set to him battle in the field of Megiddo; and princes came down to king Josiah.

³⁰And then the king said to his children, Moveth me away from the battle; forsooth I am greatly made sick. And anon his children moved him away from the battle array.

³¹And he went up upon his secondary chariot; and coming to Jerusalem, he died, and was buried in his father’s sepulchre.

³²And in all Judah they bewailed Josiah, and they that before-set with wives, wailed him unto this day; and this is granted to be done evermore in all the kindred of Israel.

³³These things forsooth be written in the book of stories of kings of Judah, and the glory of Josiah, and his understanding in the law of God, by all deeds of the doing of him; for evenly those were done of him, and the which be not written in the book of kings of Israel and of Judah.

³⁴And they that were of the kindred took Jeconiah, the son of Josiah, and set him king for Josiah, his father, when he was of three and thirty years.

³⁵And he reigned upon Israel three months; and then the king of Egypt put him away, that he reigned not in Jerusalem.

³⁶And he polled the folk of an hundred talents of silver, and of a talent of gold.

³⁷And the king of Egypt set Jehoiakim, his brother, king of Judea and of Jerusalem;