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1538 J. Bale God's Promises iv. sig. C.iv The passe ouer lambe, wyll be a token iust, Of thys stronge couenaunt.

1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Civ The Passouer lambe was a sygne, a toaken, and a remembraunce.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xxxv. 7 Iosiah gaue to the people, of the flocke, lambes and kiddes, all for the Passeouer-offerings. View more context for this quotation

1753 Jewish Ritual 35 The eating of Matzah, i.e. Passover Cake.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred III. vi. v. 201 ‘We are to be rewarded for our pains by eating passover cakes.’ ‘What are they?’ ‘Festival bread of the Hebrews, made in the new moon, with the milk of he-goats.’

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Passover-bread, Passover-cake, a thin unleavened cake, used among the Jews at the festival of the Passover.

1886 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 15 42 Josephus mentions that the foreigners who came to worship at Jerusalem were not allowed to share the Passover meal.

1904 Jewish Encycl. VI. 142/2 The opinion of Friedmann..that special books containing the Passover service existed in Talmudic times.

1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 207/1 Husbands knew that leckach was the ambrosia to accompany the nectary Passover wine.

1984 Christadelphian June 204/1 He could no longer take a lamb to the temple that the priests might slay it before he and his family ate it as the Passover meal.

2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 216/2 Moed, in Judaism, the division of the Mishnah which deals with the laws of the sabbath, high holy days, Passover sacrifices, and similar laws to do with feasts.