Passover

"Passover" in a Sentence (12 examples)

When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

This is a time of year when people get together with family and friends to observe Passover and to celebrate Easter.

The newly redeemed nation of Israel experienced Passover through Pentecost­ from leaving Egypt, their place of bondage, up to receiving the covenant from God at Sinai.

There's a Passover custom to hide half a matzo, which is called "Afikoman", and the child who finds it is entitled to ask for an expensive present in return for it.

Passover is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the liberation of the Jews by God from slavery in Egypt.

Matzo, an unleavened bread, is eaten during Passover.

Happy Passover!

Passover is also called the Festival of Spring.

During Passover, people usually give gifts to children.

The blood libel was the antisemitic accusation that Jews ritually murdered children in order to bake their blood into Passover matzos.

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⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. ⁶ Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. ⁸ But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.

Right now, my family’s special collision of vegetarianism and Judaism necessitates a good bit of chocolate. But when Passover ends, that doesn’t mean we should put the chocolate cake, or the chocolate milk, away.

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