Passover · The first of the feasts is Passover (16:1–8), which is to take place in the month of Aviv (our late March–early April). The name Passover probably comes from the verb “to pass over,” as when God had the death angel “leap/pass over” the houses of the Israelites in Egypt just before the tenth plague of the death of the firstborn in Egypt (Exod. 12:29–31). It is also the time of the barley harvest and the seven additional days of eating unleavened bread (16:3), since they needed to leave Egypt in “haste” (the Hebrew term, meaning to move in a hurry along with fear and trepidation, is used only in Exod. 12:11, here, and in Isa. 52:12). This sacrifice is to begin at the “place” (16:2, 6, 7) that God will choose for his name to dwell, thus replacing the sites …