The Festivals of Pesah and Massot in the Book of JubileesAllusion Source Content
Date(s)
Indicated(1) eternal statute Exod 12:14 Statute to commemorate night of
plague
15th (plague,
eating)on its day Lev 23:5,37 Offerings for sacred occasions at set
times, 14th prescribed for the pesah
offering
14th (sacrifice)(1) throughout all
their generations
Exod 12:14 15th (plague, eating, exodus) Night of plague
a festival
Exod 12:42 Night of plague a vigilComments
l. The command is constructed to connect Pesah with festival (Exod 12:14),
the night of the plague (12:14), and the night of the vigil commemorating the
exodus (12:42), all of which involve the fifteenth.
49:9 The man who is pure but does not come to celebrate it — on the time of its
day (lit.) to bring a sacrifice that is pleasing before the Lord and to eat and
drink before the Lord on the day of His festival — that man who is pure and
nearby is to be uprooted because he did not bring the Lord's sacrifice at its
time. That man will bear responsibility for his own sin.^23
Date(s)
Indicated
14th-15th
(sacrifice and
eating)
14th (sacrifice)Allusion Source Content
Date(s)
Indicated(1) the man who is
pure ... that man
who is pure ... at its
time
Num 9:13 Full, but slightly altered citation 14th-15th
(sacrifice and
eating)(2) on the time of its
day
None 14th (sacrifice)(3) day of His festival Exod 12:14 Celebrate this day "as a festival to
the Lord"
15th (eating)Exod 23:18 Prohibition against leaving the fat
of offerings of "my festival" until
morning- Positioning of dashes mine. The positioning in VanderKam's translation obfus
cates the specification of two activities on two different dates.