¹⁴ They took all the altars that had been used in Jerusalem for offering sacrifices and burning incense and threw them into Kidron Valley. ¹⁵ And on the fourteenth day of the month they killed the lambs for the Passover sacrifice. The priests and Levites who were not ritually clean became so ashamed that they dedicated themselves to the Lord, and now they could sacrifice burnt offerings in the Temple. ¹⁶ They took their places in the Temple according to the instructions in the Law of Moses, the man of God. The Levites gave the blood of the sacrifices to the priests, who sprinkled it on the altar.