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The Passover Festival[a]

16 The month Abib is a special month for you.[b] In this month, you must eat a meal to remember the Passover. Remember what the Lord your God did for you. In that month, he brought you out of Egypt during the night.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:1 This chapter describes three special festivals or feasts.
  2. 16:1 Abib was a month in the Hebrew calendar that came in March and April. See Leviticus 23:4-8.

Jesus eats his last meal with his 12 disciples

17 The first day of the festival when the Jews eat flat bread arrived.[a] Jesus' disciples came to him and they asked him, ‘Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal for you to eat?’

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Footnotes

  1. 26:17 Flat bread is bread that has no yeast in it.

Jesus eats his last meal with his 12 apostles

12 The first day of the festival when the Jews eat flat bread arrived. On this day, each family kills a young sheep for the Passover meal. Jesus' disciples said to him, ‘We will go to prepare the Passover meal for you. Where do you want us to do that?’

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