# pesach (פֶּסַח)

pronounced: PEH-sach


**Passover — to pass over, to spare**

## In Scripture

> The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
> — Exodus 12:13 (The institution — the verb pasach itself, God passing over the blood-marked houses)

> Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
> — Deuteronomy 16:1 (The annual command, fixing Pesach to Abib and the night of the exodus)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/pesach/