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Definition of Feast of the Unleavened Bread

1. Noun. (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

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Literary usage of Feast of the Unleavened Bread

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Passover (whence our Pascha), with which the Feast of the Unleavened Bread is closely connected and almost identified, although originally distinct' ..."

2. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1862)
"10, 5, he says, "The feast of the unleavened bread succeeds that of the passover and falls on the fifteenth day of the month, and continues seven days. ..."

3. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1881)
"The feast of the unleavened bread, or the passover, properly began on the 1 eth (just after sunset of the 141)1) of Abib or Nisan, and lasted seven days. ..."

4. The Chronology of Ancient Nations: An English Version of the Arabic Text of by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī, Eduard Sachau (1879)
"6), where He says : " On the fifteenth of this month is the feast of the unleavened bread unto God. Then you shall eat unleavened bread during seven days, ..."

5. The Gospel of Matthew: An Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein (1907)
"The first day of the feast of the unleavened bread was the day on which the passover was to be killed (Luke xxii:?). ..."

6. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"... the feast of the unleavened bread, Ex 2318). We have also one instance of the full phrase ч сорту таг ..."

7. The Prophets of Israel: Popular Sketches from Old Testament History by Carl by Carl Heinrich Cornill (1897)
"At the feast of the unleavened bread the first fruits of the fields, of the barley harvest, were offered up to God. The Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost, ..."

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