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What does Passover mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The eight-day Jewish festival of Pesach, commemorating the biblical story of Exodus, during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed.
  2. The Christian holy day generally falling on the first day of the Jewish Passover.
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They celebrate the Passover, another marker of their identity as God's people, and they no longer have to eat the manna of the wilderness.
With the twelve disciples, in a large upper room, Jesus observed the Passover supper.
Each of the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot is dedicated to examining and refining one of them.
The Tosefta's seder, I am suggesting, is an early attempt at fashioning a Passover night celebration without a paschal lamb.
Pot and utensils that cannot be koshered are put away and replaced with Passover dishes.
This requirement is based on the Biblical injunction that during Passover no chometz be eaten.

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