SEV Biblia, Chapter 30:17
Porque aún había muchos en la congregación que no estaban santificados, y por eso los levitas sacrificaban la pascua por todos los que no se habían limpiado para santificarse al SEÑOR.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified , etc.] Or purified from uncleanness, contracted either by idolatry, or through such things which, according to the ceremonial law, made them unclean, and from which they had not now time to cleanse themselves according to the law: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for everyone that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord ; this they did for the masters of families, who were ceremonially unclean, who otherwise might have killed their passover lambs themselves, (see Exodus 12:6), but now the Levites did it for them, that their passovers might be sanctified and consecrated to the Lord; for, as Philo the Jew says f128 , one day in a year the whole sacrificed, everyone acted as a priest, and brought and slew his own sacrifice, meaning at the passover.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-20 - The great thing needful in attendance upon God in solemn ordinances is, that we make heart-work of it; all is nothing without this. Wher this sincerity and fixedness of heart are, there may yet be many thing short of the purification of the sanctuary. These defects nee pardoning, healing grace; for omissions in duty are sins, as well a omissions of duty. If God should deal with us in strict justice, eve as to the very best of our doings, we should be undone. The way to obtain pardon, is to seek it of God by prayer; it must be gotten by petition through the blood of Christ. Yet every defect is sin, an needs forgiveness; and should be matter to humble, but not to discourage us, though nothing can make up for the want of a hear prepared to seek the Lord.
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 רבת 7227 בקהל 6951 אשׁר 834 לא 3808 התקדשׁו 6942 והלוים 3881 על 5921 שׁחיטת 7821 הפסחים 6453 לכל 3605 לא 3808 טהור 2889 להקדישׁ 6942 ליהוה׃ 3068
