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 More on Passover from Fact Monster:
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