• What Is the Passover?
    Bible Questions Answered
    • A family in Bible times eats the Passover meal

      What Is the Passover?

      The Bible’s answer

      The Passover is the Jewish celebration of God’s liberating the Israelites from Egyptian slavery in 1513 B.C.E. God commanded the Israelites to remember that important event each year on the 14th day of the Jewish month Abib, which was later called Nisan.​—Exodus 12:42; Leviticus 23:5.

  • What Is the Passover?
    Bible Questions Answered

    • Misconception: The Israelites ate the Passover meal on Nisan 15.

      Fact: God commanded the Israelites to slaughter a lamb just after sunset on Nisan 14 and to eat it on the same night. (Exodus 12:​6, 8) The Israelites measured their day from sunset to sunset. (Leviticus 23:32) Thus, the Israelites slaughtered the lamb and ate the Passover meal at the start of Nisan 14.