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In the Hebrew calendar it is the first month of the ecclesiastical year, called the "first of the months of the year" (Exodus 12:1-2), "first month" (Ex 12:14), and the month of Aviv (Ex 13:4) בְּחֹ֖דֶשׁ הָאָבִֽיב ḥōḏeš hāʾāḇîḇ). It is called Nissān in the Book of Esther. It is a month of 30 days.
Reading 1: Exodus 13:17–22 Reading 2: Exodus 14:1–8 Reading 3: Exodus 14:9–14 Reading 4: Exodus 14:15–25 Reading 5: Exodus 14:26–15:26 Maftir: Numbers 28:19–25 Haftarah: II Samuel 22:1–51 When the seventh day of Passover falls out on Shabbat, the individual readings are as follows: Reading 1: Exodus 13:17–13:19
The Book of Exodus (from Ancient Greek: Ἔξοδος, romanized : Éxodos; Biblical Hebrew: שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ, 'Names'; Latin: Liber Exodus) is the second book of the Bible. It is a narrative of the Exodus, the origin myth of the Israelites leaving slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of their deity named Yahweh, who ...
The Exodus. Departure of the Israelites ( David Roberts, 1829) The Exodus ( Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm: lit. 'Departure from Egypt'[ a]) is the founding myth [ b] of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ).
The Plagues of Egypt ( Biblical Hebrew: מכות מצרים ), in the account of the Book of Exodus, are ten disasters inflicted on biblical Egypt by the God of Israel (Yahweh) in order to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting Pharaoh and one of his Egyptian gods; [ 1] they serve as "signs and ...
Bible/Featured chapter/Exodus 12. God commanded Moses to teach the ritual of Pesah. God told Moses to order the Hebrews to mark their doorpost with the lamb's blood, in order that the plague of death would pass over them. In the middle of the night, God came upon Egypt to take the life of all the Egyptian first-born sons, including Pharaoh's ...
[14] The Liturgy of the Word consists of the following readings: Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14, a description of the original Passover celebration. Psalm 115 (116), thanksgiving for being saved; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Paul the Apostle's account of what Jesus did at his Last Supper
Sources and parallels of the Exodus. The Exodus is the founding myth of the Israelites. [ 1][ a] The scholarly consensus is that the Exodus, as described in the Torah, is not historical, even though there may be a historical core behind the Biblical narrative. [ 2][ 3] Modern archaeologists believe that the Israelites were indigenous to Canaan ...