# seder (סֵדֶר)

pronounced: SEH-der


**Order — the Passover meal's sequence**

## In Scripture

> It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’”   The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
> — Exodus 12:26-27 (The child's question the seder is ordered to answer; the word seder itself is later, rabbinic)

> You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
> — Exodus 13:8 (The command to retell — the haggadah, the telling, at the heart of the meal)


## 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.


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