the killing of the Passover lamb, and it continued for seven days, until the twenty-first of Nisan. No unleavened bread was to be eaten during these seven days. The first and the last of these seven days, the 15th and the 21st, were to be days of holy convocation and days of rest from servile work. This feast reminded the Israelites of their hasty flight from Egypt after they had eaten the first Passover lamb, Exodus 12:33, 34. It foreshadowed the holy and incorrupt life which should be lived by
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