Passover
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The seven-day (Judaism) or eight-day (Judaism|Orthodox and Judaism) Jewish festival of Pesach, commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus, during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed.
The one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a day) that begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month (Nisan 14), which 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 Sabbaths).
Leviticus 23:5–6 (New American Standard Bible)
- 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the (smallcaps) Passover. 6 Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the (smallcaps); 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 (smallcaps). On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.