18. बहुत से लोगों ने अर्थात् एप्रैम, मनश्शे, इस्साकार और जबूलून में से बहुतों ने अपने को शुठ्ठ नहीं किया था, तौभी वे फसह के पशु का मांस लिखी हुई विधि के विरूद्ध खाते थे। क्योंकी हिजकिरयाह ने उनके लिये यह प्रार्थना की थी, कि यहोवा जो भला है, वह उन सभों के पाप ढांप दे;
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.'