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  • Those two sad factors can lead to a thousand passovers and walk-bys when you're an orphan – until now.

    Jennifer Aniston: “Give Me Babies! BABIES!” 2007

  • For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • I was once at a matinee of "Flying Dutchman" in War Memorial when an airshow was going on, and during the quiet parts of the opera yes, there are some quiet parts in Wagner, you could hear the passbys and passovers of these planes, and it was VERRRRRRRRRY annoying.

    Politely Disinviting The Blue Angels sfmike 2005

  • Christ would therefore be present at four passovers after His baptism: (1) John ii.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

    2 Chronicles 30. 1999

  • The Chronicler also displays exceptional interest in the musical service -- in his account, e.g., of the inauguration of the temple and of the passovers of Hezekiah and Josiah; so that it has been not unreasonably conjectured that the author was himself a Levite and member of one of the guilds of temple singers or musicians.

    Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

  • At one of the passovers he caused three thousand of the people to be put to death in the temple and city.

    Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

  • There is no account that John the Baptist ever went to Jerusalem, but the Savior attended all the passovers but one during his ministry.

    The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John 1886

  • John names two more passovers after this that the Savior attended, making, with this, four after his ministry began, and five including the one when he was twelve years of age.

    The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John 1886

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