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Why was the one-day festival of Passover abandoned and incorporated into the seven-day festival of unleavened Bread?
 
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When did that happen?
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During the reign of King Josiah 2 Chronicles 35.

יז וַיַּעֲשׂוּ בְנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל הַנִּמְצְאִים אֶת-הַפֶּסַח, בָּעֵת הַהִיא, וְאֶת-חַג הַמַּצּוֹת, שִׁבְעַת יָמִים.17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
יח וְלֹא-נַעֲשָׂה פֶסַח כָּמֹהוּ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל, מִימֵי שְׁמוּאֵל הַנָּבִיא; וְכָל-מַלְכֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לֹא-עָשׂוּ כַּפֶּסַח אֲשֶׁר-עָשָׂה יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ וְהַכֹּהֲנִים וְהַלְוִיִּם וְכָל-יְהוּדָה, וְיִשְׂרָאֵל הַנִּמְצָא, וְיוֹשְׁבֵי, יְרוּשָׁלִָם. {ס}18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 
Jesus was called the Pascal Lamb and the Pascal lamb was supposed to be killed on the afternoon of the 13th day of Nisan in order for the Passover meal to be eaten in the evening and beginning of Nisan the 14th. But because the actual Passover day was abandoned, the Pascal Lambs were butchered on what should have been the day of the festival of Passover and eaten in the evening of the 15th of Nisan, the first day of the seven-day festival of unleavened bread.

Although Jesus did celebrate the Passover with his disciples as commanded through Moses, on the evening and beginning of Nisan the 14th, but rather than butcher a Lamb, Jesus offered the Bread and wine as a substitute for his body and blood.
 
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The Anointed said:
Why was the one-day festival of Passover abandoned and incorporated into the seven-day festival of unleavened Bread?
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Passover was connected to the Days of Unleavened Bread once the Israelites fled Egypt. Eventually Israel ignored and even forgot their old customs. King Josiah reinstated the Holy Days. The Isreaelites enjoyed these "forgotten" traditions. They enjoyed them so much that they even observed Sukkot for 2 weeks instead of just one week. But nowhere have I ever seen the claim that Passover was "abandoned" and then incorporated into the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It's just that no Passover celebration could compare to the one that the Israelites performed under Josiah.
 
moralorel said:
Passover was connected to the Days of Unleavened Bread once the Israelites fled Egypt. Eventually Israel ignored and even forgot their old customs. King Josiah reinstated the Holy Days. The Isreaelites enjoyed these "forgotten" traditions. They enjoyed them so much that they even observed Sukkot for 2 weeks instead of just one week. But nowhere have I ever seen the claim that Passover was "abandoned" and then incorporated into the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It's just that no Passover celebration could compare to the one that the Israelites performed under Josiah.
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"THIS DAY"

וְהָיָה הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה לָכֶם לְזִכָּרוֹן, וְחַגֹּתֶם אֹתוֹ חַג לַיהוָה: לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶם, חֻקַּת עוֹלָם תְּחָגֻּהוּ.14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
 
moralorel said:
But nowhere have I ever seen the claim that Passover was "abandoned" and then incorporated into the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It's just that no Passover celebration could compare to the one that the Israelites performed under Josiah.
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Josiah's Seven-day festival began as the sun set on the 14th day of Nisan, the Passover day. It was not the Passover celebration that Josiah kept. but the festival of Unleavened Bread which lasted from the beginning of the 15th day of Nisan, which is as the sunset on the 14th day of Passover, to sunset of the 21st day of Nisan, seven days. See Numbers 33: 3.

ג וַיִּסְעוּ מֵרַעְמְסֵס בַּחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן, בַּחֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר יוֹם לַחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן: מִמָּחֳרַת הַפֶּסַח, יָצְאוּ בְנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּיָד רָמָה--לְעֵינֵי, כָּל-מִצְרָיִם.3 And they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,
 
The Exodus text is confusing regarding the feast of Unleavened Bread and the events of the flight from Egypt as well. Was the feast instituted at Sinai, or was it invented on the fly, as it were, no time to let the dough rise and so on? The text seems to imply both.

Maybe @RabbiO can pick this one apart for us?
 
Cino said:
The Exodus text is confusing regarding the feast of Unleavened Bread and the events of the flight from Egypt as well. Was the feast instituted at Sinai, or was it invented on the fly, as it were, no time to let the dough rise and so on? The text seems to imply both.

Maybe @RabbiO can pick this one apart for us?
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I don’t find it confusing, in Exodus 12: 6; the English word ‘DUSK’ is taken from the Hebrew - בין הערבים beyn haarbayim, which means "between the two evenings, and which is translated in English bibles as evening or twilight, but the Hebrew ben ha-'arbayim literally means "between the two settings."

Rabbinic sources take this to mean "from noon on." According to Radak, the first "setting" occurs when the sun passes its zenith just after noon and the shadows begin to lengthen, and the second "setting" is the actual sunset. (p. 55, vol. 2, The Jewish Publication Society Torah Commentary, "Exodus") Jesus, the Lamb of God died at 3PM, midway between noon and 6PM sunset.

The Lambs were killed on the 13th day of Nisan, they were eaten that evening which was the beginning of the 12 hours of darkness that was followed by the 12 Hours of daylight of the 14th of Nisan, the day that the angel of death passed over Egypt.

Exodus 12: 22-23; The Israelites are commanded by the Lord, through Moses, that on the night of the Passover, the 14th day of Abib/Nisan, the night that the Lord killed all the firstborn males of Egypt who were not protected by the sacrificial blood, and they were not to leave their houses until ‘MORNING.’

During the 12 hours of daylight, the Israelites finished the preparations to leave, asking and receiving gifts of Gold, silver and clothing from the Egyptians, collecting the bones of Joseph from the valley of Kings and preparing them for the journey to Shechem as Joseph requested, etc, etc.

On the night of the 15th of Nisan after they had left Egypt in full view of the Egyptians burying their dead, they baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for they had been driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to get their food ready or to prepare leavened dough. The 15th of Nisan, the first day of the seven day festival of Unleavened Bread which follows the one day festival of Passover.

It's no skin off my nose how those of the Jewish faith celebrate their beliefs, I’m simply curious as to why they abandoned the 14th day as the day of Passover and incorporated it into their seven day festival of Unleavened Bread.
 
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The Anointed said:
Jesus was called the Pascal Lamb and the Pascal lamb was supposed to be killed on the afternoon of the 13th day of Nisan in order for the Passover meal to be eaten in the evening and beginning of Nisan the 14th. But because the actual Passover day was abandoned, the Pascal Lambs were butchered on what should have been the day of the festival of Passover and eaten in the evening of the 15th of Nisan, the first day of the seven-day festival of unleavened bread.

Although Jesus did celebrate the Passover with his disciples as commanded through Moses, on the evening and beginning of Nisan the 14th, but rather than butcher a Lamb, Jesus offered the Bread and wine as a substitute for his body and blood.
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Since this thread is not really about Jewish beliefs but Christian ones, I'm moving it to the Christian sub-forum.
 
Cino said:
Since this thread is not really about Jewish beliefs but Christian ones, I'm moving it to the Christian sub-forum.
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Although this thread has everything to do with the one day Festival of Passover being incorporated into the seven day Festival of Unleavened Bread, it may be a good thing that it has been moved to the Christian sub-forum, as it would be of little interest to those of the Jewish faith and it opens the door to clarify many misconceptions that surround the death and resurrection of Jesus.

Jesus held the Passover with his disciples in the evening and beginning of the 14th day of Nisan, but had no Pascal Lamb at their meal, for Jesus saw himself as the sacrificial Lamb of God and he offered his apostles bread and wine as a substitute for his body and blood.

According to the Jewish belief the 14th of Nisan was the day of preparation to their Passover which began on the 15th of Nisan.

The Jewish day began at sunset and consisted of 12 hours of darkness followed by 12 hours of light. Jesus said; “A day has 12 hours has it not, so work while the light is with you.”

A few hours ater his last meal, he was arrested in the darkness by the Roman Guards, he was condemned by Pilate on the 6th hour of Darkness (Midnight), he was nailed to the cross on the 3rd hour of daylight 9AM, he died at 3PM and was buried as the sun was setting on the 14th and the Jews were sitting down to their Passover meal in the evening and beginning of the 15th.

He was in the grave all night and day of Thursday the 15th, all night and day of Friday the 16th, all night and day of Saturday the 17th and was risen sometime early in Sunday evening with all the saints whose graves were opened as he gave up the spirit on the cross 3 Days earlier, the tomb was found to be empty in the darkness of Sunday morning before sunrise.

Having revealed biblically that the Passover Festival was to be held on the 14th day of the first month and knowing that the following Sunday is the Festival of First-Fruits and that it was in the darkness of Sunday night that Jesus and all the saints came out of their Graves and entered the city and revealed themselves to many as the risen CHRIST, the First-Fruits to be harvested from the body of man.

According to the genealogy recorded in Luke, Jesus is 70 generations from Enoch the seventh from God the Father of Adam, making Jesus the 11th of the seventh born sons from Adam. Ten plus one is eleven, and ten completes the first cycle, while one [11] begins the new cycle. Here we see the multi-celled "SECOND ADAM."
 
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