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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 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.
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.
Exodus 12:1-11 – God gives instructions for the first Passover; Jonah 1:1-4:11 – Jonah spends three days in the belly of a sea monster; Joshua 5:10-15 – Joshua celebrates Passover; Exodus 13:20-15:19 – The Israelites cross the Red Sea (note that the final 19 verses are sung as a canticle) Zephaniah 3:8-15 – God promises refuge to Israel
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 ...
The English term Passover is first known to be recorded in the English language in William Tyndale's translation of the Bible, [10] later appearing in the King James Version as well. It is a literal translation of the Hebrew term. [11] In the King James Version, Exodus 12:23 reads:
The Mishnah taught that the prohibitions of Exodus 12:19 that "seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses" and of Exodus 13:7 that "no leaven shall be seen in all your territory" applied to the first Passover; while at the second Passover, one could have both leavened and unleavened bread in one's house.
Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867). The story of the Exodus is told in the first half of Exodus, with the remainder recounting the 1st year in the wilderness, and followed by a narrative of 39 more years in the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the last four of the first five books of the Bible (also called the Torah or Pentateuch). [10]