Passover

The foundational memorial of deliverance from Egypt.

Passover is a memorial of deliverance through judgment and rescue. It is marked by a defined meal and a repeated pattern of remembrance: telling the story, eating in haste, and keeping the memorial across generations.

Related foods

Bread Wine

Scripture

Exodus 12:14

14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

Exodus 12:8-11

8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

9 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.

Leviticus 23:5

5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.

Luke 22:15-16

15 He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

16 for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."