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The passover is called that because when Moses wanted the Pharaoh to let the Jews leave, he refused. The God of the Jews then sent ten plagues to Egypt, the last of which was to kill the first born son of every household in Egypt. God warned Moses, and he had the Hebrew people paint their door lintels with the blood of the lambs they were to have then roasted and eaten for dinner, as a sign to the HaShem that the inhabitants were faithful. HaShem then "passed over" these houses, leaving the first born sons alive.

Jewish AnswerThe name 'Passover' isn't the actual name for the holiday, the actual name is 'Pesach'. The Hebrew word Pesach is a contraction of the words 'peh sach' which means 'the mouth speaks'. The reason for this name is because we are commanded to retell the story of Pesach every year so that we don't forget it.
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In the month of Abib (later changed to Nisan), on the 14th day in the year 1513 BCE, the Israelites were given specific instructions on what they needed to do to survive the 10th and final plague being inflicted on all those the land.

At this time, Moses was the spokesperson whom God had chosen to speak to the ruler of the land, Pharoah. His assignment was to get Pharoah to free the Israelites from slavery and bondage to the Egyptian people.

The ten plagues were each against a specific false god of Egypt. The final plague was the death of the first born male of each family.

To protect their family and to demonstrate their faith in Jehovah God's promise for their freedom, one of the thing they had to do was to prepare a specific meal and to stay in their homes for the entire night.

Their specific instructions included preparing a lamb or a goat for their evening meal. They even had to prepare it a certain way. They were to properly bleed the animal before preparing it, and to splash it's blood on hyssop and put it on the doorposts and the top of their doors of the homes where they were to share this meal.

With these instructions followed, the household was "passed over" from this 10th plague.

This account is recorded in the 12th chapter of Exodus.

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Because the angel of death passed over the Israelites homes with Moses and the children of Israel enslaved in Egypt. On their final night in slavery of Egypt, God passed over the homes of the Israelites and smote the Egyptians' first-born sons (Exodus ch.12) - the final plaque brought upon Egypt for refusing to release God' people.

For Christians, Jesus is our Passover (see 1 Corinthians 5:7), having eaten His last meal on Earth, suffered and died for the sins of all mankind on Passover day, Wednesday, April 25, 31 AD.

The celebration of Passover continued onward for the Church Jesus established and HIs Apostles expanded but under ever increasing 'persecution' by others who associated this term as a solely Jewish feast day in error. In 325 AD, Emperor Constantine set in motion the ways and means to discontinue calling it Passover and renaming it to Easter - more in line with his (and his elite soldiers) sun-worshiping

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Because God passed over the houses of the Israelites while smiting the Egyptians (Exodus, ch. 12).

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Because the on the 10th plague, the angel of death supposedly passed over the homes of the Jews whose first borns were not to be killed.

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The story of the first Passovere is in Exodus 12:21-28. It was hardly a celebration. The story is tightly coupled to the 10 plagues that God sent upon the Egyptians to force them to let the Israelites go. The final plague was the death of the firstborn, and the purpose of the Passover sacrifice was to provide the blood to mark the houses of the Israelites so that they would not be subject to this plague. It was also a final meal at home prior to setting out on the exodus. The second and subsequent Passovers were commemorations of the first one, so they could be seen as celebrations or at least memorials.

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