1.) Was held in the spring, on the fourteenth of the
month Abib, or Nisan, corresponding to parts of March
and April (Exod. 12. 18).
2.) Commemorated the exodus from E'gypt (Exod. 12.
42).
3.) Observed with the eating of unleavened bread and
the slain lamb (Exod. 12. 19-21).