Passover Observance
Now, the appointed time had drawn near for the festival during which the Jews have as their ancestral law to serve unleavened bread, whose feast is called Passover and is a memorial of their deliverance out of Egypt, when they offer sacrifices with great devotion, and when they are required to slay more sacrifices in number than at any other festival.
Translated by William Whiston, adapted byAaron Samuels.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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