Pesach/Feast of Unleavened Bread

Begins sunset: Abib 14th

Ends nightfall: Abib 22nd

 

Passover, known as Pesach is the first feast day.  The primary

Observance of Pesach is because of the Exodus from Egypt after

Generations of slavery, Exodus chapter 1-15 explains the story. 

The meaning of Pesach is to pass through, to Passover, to exempt or to spare. 

This refers to when the Israelites were instructed to take the blood of the

lamb and mark it on the door post of their houses to prevent the Creator from

smiting their first born child and cattle. 

 

 

 

 

You are allowed to do work that only pertains to preparation of the Passover feast the first day and the seventh day, but it prohibits you from doing occupational work the 1st day and the seventh day (Deuteronomy 16:8).  In Exodus 12:2 the Creator explains that the month of Abib shall be acknowledge unto you as the beginning of months. In Exodus 12:6 it explains how we shall keep the Passover on the 14th day of the same month, and Exodus 12:12 explains how the Creator said he will execute judgement that night and pass through Egypt and kill every first born and beast.  Exodus 34:18 and Deuteronomy 16:1 lets us know that the first month was called the month of Abib and how we are to keep the Passover in this month.  In the Hebrew culture the sighting and following of the new moon is what established our appointed holy days and The Creator's calendar.  Each new moon consist of 28 to 29 days which leads us to using the Luna cycle.  So when you see the sighting of the new moon, barley and flax this indicates that we are near the month of Abib (Exodus 9:31 and 32.)