Leviticus 23:5

The Passover (Leviticus 23:5).

Leviticus 23:5

“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Yahweh's passover.”

The first feast was the Passover which occurred on the fourteenth of Abib/Nisan (March/April), fourteen days after the new moon which marked the beginning of the new year as established in Egypt (Exodus 12:2). This was in remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt when Yahweh ‘passed over' their houses when he smote the firstborn of Egypt (Exodus 12:2; Exodus 12:21). Later the feast and the feast of unleavened bread would be seen as united together in one as ‘the Passover' (Luke 22:1). Whatever happened in their future Israel never forgot how God had delivered them from Egypt.

At this feast over a thousand years later (John 19:14) God's great Passover Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ would be offered as the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:7).