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The Passover Festival[a]

16 The month Abib is a special month for you.[b] In this month, you must eat a meal to remember the Passover. Remember what the Lord your God did for you. In that month, he brought you out of Egypt during the night. You must go to the special place that the Lord will choose for his people to worship him. There you must kill one of your animals as a sacrifice to remember the Passover. You may kill one of your cows or sheep. At this feast, eat bread that you make without any yeast. For seven days, you must eat bread that you make without yeast. You ate that kind of bread when you had much trouble in Egypt. You had to leave Egypt in a hurry that night. You must eat that bread each year. Then you will always remember the day when you left Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:1 This chapter describes three special festivals or feasts.
  2. 16:1 Abib was a month in the Hebrew calendar that came in March and April. See Leviticus 23:4-8.