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Passover

A Jewish festival to commemorate the deliverance of the Israelites, when the angel of death (that slew the first-born of the Egyptians) passed over their houses, and spared all who did as Moses commanded them.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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