Pesach and Chag Hamatzot, Passover and Unleavened Bread

Next week begins the first of the spring Feasts, or moedim, of Yehovah. What is interesting about this year is that the Pesach, or Passover, is on the exact day of the week that Yeshua was crucified as our Passover Lamb. Pesach is on Wednesday, April 12, by the Gregorian Calendar and Chag HaMatzot begins in the evening at sundown. Pesach is the 14th day of the month of the aviv and Chag Hamatzot is the 15th day. The month of the aviv, the first month of the Biblical year, began March 30 by the Gregorian Calendar.

YHVH commands us to observe these days, and the Apostle Paul also tells us to keep the feast. We are to do no work on the 13th of April, the beginning of unleavened bread and on the 19th of April, the last day of unleavened bread, and are to not eat any bread with leaven in it, or even have any leaven in our homes.  

Leviticus 23:4-8 (CKJV)

⁴ These are the feasts of YHVH, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

⁵ In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is YHVH's passover.

⁶ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto YHVH: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

⁷ In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

⁸ But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YHVH seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

1 Corinthians 5:7-8 (CKJV)

⁷ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Mashiach our Passover is sacrificed for us:

⁸ Therefore let us keep the Feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.