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Often appears with: unleavened bread · sacrifice and ritual · passover instructions · lamb blood on doorposts · funeral rites and burial · custom and unwritten law
Usually: law or decree (1) · reverence (1)
“For I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution.” William Tyndale, The first New Testament printed in English · observation
The LORD institutes Passover for Israel: slaughtering a spotless male lamb, marking doorposts with blood, eating roasted meat with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, and observing it as an everlasting holy custom.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying: This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you. Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel saying: that they take the tenth day of this month to every household, a sheep. If the household be too few for a sheep, then let him and his neighbour that is next unto this house, take according to the number of s…