Why is the feast of Passover on the 15th day of Nissan and not the 10th day as stated in the bible?

Question

Why is the feast of Passover on the 15th day of Nissan and not the 10th day as stated in the bible?

Answer 1

On the 10th (Shabbat), the Jewish people tied a lam to their bed posts and kept it there for 3 days, on the 14th in the afternoon they slaughtered the lam and put the blood on the doorpost. That night (the evening of the 15th) they are the lamb roasted along with matzah (the first Seder). At midnight that night GD "passed over" the homes of the Jewish people and spayed the firstborn sons of the Egyptians. That morning (actually right at midday on the 15th - night precedes day) the Jewish people left Egypt and didn't have time to bake bread, so they made more Matzos and ate that for seven days. The seventh day corresponds to the splitting of the sea. I hope this clarifies the timeline for you.



We celebrate the events that happened on the 10th of Nissan on the Shabbat before pesach (although the date may not be the 10th) and we call it Shabbos HaGadol (the great Shabbat). Why not the 10th? Miryam died on the 10th of Nissan years later so its a mournful day, so we celebrate on Shabbat.

Answer 2

The Torah says to slaughter the pesach (the lamb) on the 14th day of the first month between the evenings, which means at sunset on the 14th day. The 15th day is the first day of passover. What you might be asking is why the counting of the omer begins on the 16th of nissan instead of the first sunday during passover as stated in the Torah. This is because the Rabbinic interpretation is incorrect. The Torah states to begin counting the omer from the day after the shabbat during passover. The pharisees interpreted this (incorrectly) to mean the day after the first day of passover (the 16th of nissan) since the first day of passover (the 15th of nissan) is a day on which work is prohibited. However we know this cannot be the case because in Joshua 5 it states the Israelites ate the grain of the land of Israel that year on the morning after the passover sacrifice (the 15th of nissan) and the Torah prohibits eating the grain of the land until after the counting of the omer begins. That year the pesach was offered on the sabbath causing the next morning (a sunday) to be the beginning of the counting of the omer.

Answer 3

Notice the similar mid month holiday from the book of Esther?

The 360 compared to the 365 1/4 gentile calandars add to the confusion.

The Hebrew calandar ordained of G-d seems more correct.

Yet always Passover Feast of Unleavened Bread and then Easter.

Purim was just a short time ago.

So the double think is more leaned to the duplication or repeat of the Lamb of G-d laying His life down to take it up again after 3 days as Messiah Yeshua of Nazareth only could do.being pre ordained to do s.

The Love of G-d made a way of escape for us as Messiah died in our place.

The `0 th seems to be the time of extreme judgement befalling the House of Egypt and those disobedient to the Lord G-d.

May the Lomb of G-d take our sins away this day forever.

Let us thank G-d for His goodness and might to deliver His people.

Answer 4

Although Deuteronomy 16:1 provides that: “Guard the month of Aviv, and make the Passover offering.”

Thus, we have a biblical citation that Passover occurs in the

Spring.

However, a more dispositive offering is the Code of Jewish law as amended by the Chofetz Chaim in his Mishnah Berurah, that states in Section 429.1 (note 2), one should begin preparing for Passover thirty days form the day of Purim itself. Because Purim falls on 14th of Adar, the Rabbi’s calculate that Passover occurs on Nissan 15.



The significance is that both holidays occur when there is a full moon, of particular importance to the ancients (and the ancient calendar created in 382 C.C.)

Answer 5

Nowhere in the bible does it say Passover is the 15th day or that it should be the 10th day? Whay verse did you use? Just read leviticus 23, which speaks about all of Gods feats dates and times specifically.

Answer 6

I assume that it has something to do with the variations and changing from lunar to solar calendar.