Passover

Definitions

1. The one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight at the beginning of the fourteenth day of the first month (Abib 14 / Nisan 14), during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed; this feast day is then immediately followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 to 21; the first and seventh days are holy days or annual or yearly Sabbaths).
2. Alternative letter-case form of Passover.
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3. The seven-day (Reform Judaism) or eight-day (Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) Jewish festival of Pesach (also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (מַצּוֹת (matsót)), commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus.

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Examples

“⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. ⁶ Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat⟳ unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you shall have⟳ a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work⟳. ⁸ But for seven days you shall present⟳ an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work⟳.”

“Right now, my family’s special collision of vegetarianism and Judaism necessitates a good bit of chocolate. But when Passover ends, that doesn’t mean⟳ we should put⟳ the chocolate cake, or the chocolate milk, away.”

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