“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.“
Exodus 12:18
“On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is Yahuah’s Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto Yahuah; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.”
Leviticus 23:5-6
“Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahuah your Elohim, for in the month of Abib Yahuah your Elohim brought you out of Egypt by night. Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahuah your Elohim, from the flock and the herd, in the place where Yahuah chooses to put His name. You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until morning.
“You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahuah your Elohim gives you; but at the place where Yahuah your Elohim chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt. And you shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahuah your Elohim chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to Yahuah your Elohim. You shall do no work on it.
Deuteronomy 16:1-8
“They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.”
Numbers 33:3
“‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of Yahuah. And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. And you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to Yahuah: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are without blemish. Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah you shall offer for a bull, and two-tenths for a ram; you shall offer one-tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs; also one goat as a sin offering, to make atonement for you. You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering. In this manner you shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet aroma to Yahuah; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.”
Numbers 28:16-25
“And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ that you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ” So the people bowed their heads and worshiped.”
Exodus 12:26-27
The Passover Day of 14 Aviv/Abib/Nisan also referred to in the Scriptures as the Day of Preparation or referred to as the entire 8 day period – the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
On this day, a continual sacrifice was offered in the temple in the morning [3rd hour of the day] and in the evening [9th hour of the day] as a pleasant fragrance [the pleasant fragrance was not a sin offering] and additionally in the morning and evening a Passover offering as a pleasant fragrance.
It was in the temple, in the houses on that 14th day when the morning came that all leaven was cleaned and disposed of by burning it in the fire.
Unleavened breads were baked. A one-year-old lamb separated on the 10th day of that first month was checked to see if it was still without blemish.
This lamb was used for the feast offering eaten at the Passover supper, which was held on the turn of the 14th day at dusk and began on the 15th day – the 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
To recap: on the 14th day of the month of Abib/Nissan in the 1st century AD, the priests sacrificed 2 lambs on the altar in the morning and 2 lambs in the evening, while the lamb eaten at the supper was only slaughtered and bled by the priests and the blood burned on the altar in the temple.
The unblemished lamb, the unleavened bread are symbols of the greater perfect sacrifice of Yahusha the Messiah, who is the epitome [reality] of the Passover sacrifice. In fact, all the “symbols” of the old covenant [e.g., manna, water from the rock, the copper serpent, the crossing of the Jordan, etc.] are reflected in Yahusha Messiah, for he is the Word made flesh.
“29 On the next day Yoḥanan saw Yahusha coming toward him, and said, “See, the Lamb of Elohim who takes away the sin of the world!
30 This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who has become before me, for He was before me.’
31 And I did not know Him, but that He might be revealed to Yisra’ĕl, therefore I came immersing in water.
32 And Yoḥanan bore witness, saying, “I have seen the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and remain on Him.
33 “And I did not know Him, but He who sent me to immerse in water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining on Him, this is He who immerses in the Set-apart Spirit.’
34 “And I have seen and have witnessed that this is the Son of Elohim.”
35 Again the following day, Yoḥanan was standing with two of his taught ones,
36 and looking at Yahusha walking, he said, “See the Lamb of Elohim!”
John 1:29-36
“48 “I am the bread of life.
49 “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
50 “This is the bread which comes down out of the heaven, so that anyone might eat of it, and not die.
51 “I am the living bread which came down out of the heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. And indeed, the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
52 The Yehuḏim, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, “How is this One able to give us His flesh to eat?”
53 Yahusha therefore said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Aḏam and drink His blood, you possess no life in yourselves.
54 “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood possesses everlasting life, and I shall raise him up in the last day.
55 “For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink.
56 “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood stays in Me, and I in him.
57 “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me shall live because of Me.
58 This is the bread which came down out of the heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread shall live forever.
59 He said this in a congregation, teaching in Kephar Naḥum.”
John 6:48-59
32 And the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so He opened not His mouth.
33 “In His humiliation He was deprived of right-ruling. And who shall declare His generation? Because His life was taken from the earth.”
34 And the eunuch, answering Philip, said, “I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this, about himself or about some other?”
35 And Philip opening his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, brought to him the Good News: Yahusha!
Acts 8:32-35
“6 And Ya‛aqoḇ’s fountain was there. So Yahusha, being wearied from the journey, was sitting thus at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Shomeron came to draw water. Yahusha said to her, “Give Me to drink.”
8 For His taught ones had gone off into the city to buy food.
9 The woman of Shomeron therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Yehuḏi, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?” For Yehuḏim do not associate with Shomeronim.
10 Yahusha answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Master, You have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where, then, do You have living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Ya‛aqoḇ, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
13 יהושע answered and said to her, “Everyone drinking of this water shall thirst again,
14 but whoever drinks of the water I give him shall certainly never thirst. And the water that I give him shall become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15 The woman said to Him, “Master, give me this water, so that I do not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
John 4:6-15
“37 And on the last day, the great day of the festival, Yahusha stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me, and let him who believes in Me drink.
38 “As the Scripture said, out of His innermost shall flow rivers of living water.”
Jana 7:37-38
The practical aspect of this feast is from the evening of the 14th of Abib until the evening of the 15th is the time of the festive gathering of the House of YAHUAH.
It is a time of collective supper, prayers and of the Word along with singing for Yahuah in Yahusha Messiah.
On the day of preparation, be sure that brothers and sisters are with you in the unity of the Spirit and have nothing against you or you them.
In forgiveness and purity of heart is the certainty of the unity of the Spirit.
It is not necessary to have the symbols of blood in the form of wine and flesh in the form of unleavened bread, because the reality is Yahuah’s Spirit and the community of brothers and sisters who are the true body of Yahusha.
The bread is Yahusha. The Word of Yahuah is food and manna from Heaven.
The blood is the life, which is Yahusha Himself. He gives the Word, which is Spirit and Life!
Yahusha said: “The Words that I have spoken to you are Life and Spirit. “
