Yesterday we looked at the meaning of the name Passover and what it was for. Now let's turn our focus on how they celebrated it.
In the Jewish calendar month of Nisan which is late March to April, Passover is celebrated.
The Passover is 7 to 8 days depending on where you live since calendars do not match up.
14 ‘Now this day shall be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as [q]a permanent ordinance. Exodus 12:14
But for us, it would 7 days since we are looking for at Bible times.
The Passover was made of many rituals the most important being the Seder which is the Passover meal.
The Passover had many restrictions on how the Jews could eat the food.
The main one was that the food had to be kosher.
Kosher is just simply saying that the food had to be proper or fit to eat.
An example of this is they could not eat bread that was leavened instead they ate Matzah bread that in unleavened.
Think no yeast or baking powder.
The reason for eating this bread was to remember the haste that happened when fleeing the Egyptians.
other types of things that may not have been eaten are rye, wheat, barley, spelt, or oats.
Spelt is a type of wheat.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. Exodus 12:15
I am learning so much about this festival. How about you?
Tomorrow we will keep looking at this festival and go from where God directs me.
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