2 Chronicles 30:18-19

30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. ¹  For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive ²  30:19 everyone who has determined to follow God, ³  the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.” ⁴ 

[30:18]  ¹ tn Heb “without what is written.”

[30:18]  ² tn Heb “make atonement for.”

[30:19]  ³ tn Heb “everyone [who] has prepared his heart to seek God.”

[30:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “and not according to the purification of the holy place.”