Yahweh’s pesach is to take place on the fourteenth day of the first (ri’shown) month (Leviticus 23:5). The timing echoes back to the dawn of time.
The waters of the flood dried up on the first of the first month (ri’shown). Passover celebrates Israel’s deliverance from the flood of the angel of death, each blood-spattered house forming an ark of safety from the storm.
Passover reaches further: The end of Noah’s flood was the beginning of a new creation, and the “first” month celebration of Passover also picks up on the beginning of beginnings, the bere’shiyt of Genesis 1:1.
Each Passover commemorated Israel’s new creation in separation from Egypt. Each Passover re-enacted that new creation, since Israel alone kept pasch.
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