18. அதேனென்றால் எப்பிராயீம், மனாசே, இசக்கார், செபுலோன் மனுஷரில் ஏராளமான அநேகம் ஜனங்கள் தங்களைச் சுத்தம்பண்ணிக்கொள்ளாதிருந்தும், எழுதியிராத பிரகாரமாகப் பஸ்காவைச் சாப்பிட்டார்கள்.
18. Many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not prepared themselves in the right way for the Passover Festival. They did not celebrate the Passover the right way, as the Law of Moses says. But Hezekiah prayed for the people. So he said this prayer, 'Lord God, you are good. These people sincerely wanted to worship you in the right way, but they did not make themselves clean as the law says. Please forgive these people. You are the God that our ancestors obeyed. Forgive, even if someone did not make himself clean as the rules of the Most Holy Place say.'