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When the first day of Passover falls out on Shabbat, the individual readings are as follows: [3] Reading 1: Exodus 12:21–24 Reading 2: Exodus 12:25–28 Reading 3: Exodus 12:29–32 Reading 4: Exodus 12:33–36 Reading 5: Exodus 12:37–42 Reading 6: Exodus 12:43–47 Reading 7: Exodus 12:48–51 Maftir: Numbers 28:16–25
The English term Passover is first known to be recorded in the English language in William Tyndale's translation of the Bible, [9] later appearing in the King James Version as well. It is a literal translation of the Hebrew term. [10] In the King James Version, Exodus 12:23 reads:
The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt (1830 painting by David Roberts). Bo (בֹּא —in Hebrew, the command form of "go," or "come," and the first significant word in the parashah, in Exodus 10:1) is the fifteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the book of Exodus.
This year, Passover begins at sundown on April 5, and ends at sundown on April 13. Many people have Passover seders on the first and/or second nights of Passover, so seders will occur on April 5 ...
This is due to differing interpretations of Leviticus 23:15–16, where the Torah says to begin counting from the "morrow after the day of rest". [14] Rabbinic Jews interpret the "day of rest" to be the first day of Passover, while Karaites and Samaritans understand it to be the first weekly Sabbath that falls during Passover.
In the Hebrew calendar it is the first month of the ecclesiastical year, called the "first of the months of the year" (Exodus 12:1-2), "first month" (Ex 12:14), and the month of Aviv (Ex 13:4) בְּחֹ֖דֶשׁ הָאָבִֽיב ḥōḏeš hāʾāḇîḇ). It is called Nissān in the Book of Esther. It is a month of 30 days.
Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is an annual holiday marking the story from the Book of Exodus when the Jews, led by Moses, fled captivity in Egypt. The holiday itself lasts for seven days (in Israel ...
Ever since the Paschal offering ceased to exist with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE, the obligation to consume maror on the first night of Passover has been rabbinical in nature. The only two biblical references to the maror are the verse quoted above (Exodus 12:8) and in Numbers 9:11: "[t]hey are to eat the lamb, together ...