Passover Definition

Passover Sentence Examples

• At the Passover the pilgrims attacked the Roman troops.

• It is the Lord's Passover; when He sees the blood He will pass over you and there will be no plague upon you.

• Two of the disciples were sent into Jerusalem to prepare the Passover meal.

• Finally, the association of the first-born with the festival specially referred to in the texts, and carried out both in Samaritan tradition, which marks the forehead of the first-born with the blood of the lamb, and in Jewish custom, which obliged the first-born to fast on the day preceding Passover, also connects the idea of the feast with the sacro-sanctity of the first-born.

• This view claims to determine the respective ages and relative chronological position of the various passages in which the Passover is referred to in the Pentateuch, and assumes that each successive stratum represents the practice in ancient Israel at the time of composition, laying great stress upon omissions as implying non-existence.