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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Passover sacrifice (: korban Pesakh ), also known as the "sacrifice of ", the "Paschal Lamb" is the that the mandates to be brought on the eve of , and eaten on the first night of the holiday with and . According to the Torah, it was first offered on the night of the ' . Although practiced by Jews in ancient times, the ritual is no longer performed today except by certain minority groups. According to , on Numbers 9:1, only once during their forty years of wandering in the , one year after the Exodus, was the sacrifice offered. For the next 39 years there was no offering, according to , as God stipulated that it could only be offered after the Children of Israel had entered the . In fact, the bringing of the sacrifice resumed only after the Israelites had taken possession of the land, and then the sacrifice was made annually until during the times when and the stood and functioned. During this time there was a definite ritual for the offering, in addition to the regulations prescribed by the . The following is a brief summary of the principal ordinances and of the ritual accompanying the sacrifice:
