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Priests and Levites Celebrate Passover (Pesach)
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Priests and Levites Celebrate Passover (Pesach)

Hans Holbein (II) · 1538 · houtsnede; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Priests and Levites celebrate Passover (Pesach or Jewish Passover feast) with unleavened bread. On the altar outside the animals are sacrificed, on the ground lie several dead sheep ready. In the margin above the image is the text III Esdrae I [Ezra 6].

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit linePriesters en Levieten vieren Pascha (Pesach). 1538. Hans Holbein (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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