This Day a Memorial and the Festival Offering of Passover

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 200:3

"And this day shall be a memorial for you" (Exodus 12:14) - a day that is a memorial for you, you shall celebrate as a festival. But we have not heard which day. When it says, "And Moses said to the people, Remember [this day]" and so forth, the matter is still in balance. When it says, "On the morrow of the Passover they went out" (Numbers 33:3) - when did Israel eat the Passover offering? On the night of the festival day; and they went out only on the festival day itself. "And you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD." I know only of the first festival day, which requires a festival offering. From where do I learn the last festival day? Scripture teaches, "Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival to the LORD." I know only of the first and last festival days, which require a festival offering. From where the intermediate days of the festival? You may reason: since the first and last festival days are called a holy convocation, and the intermediate days are called a holy convocation, if you have learned regarding the first and last days, which are called a holy convocation, that they require a festival offering, then the intermediate days too, which are called a holy convocation, should by law require a festival offering. And further, by an argument from the lesser to the greater: if the first and last days, which have no sanctified days before or after them, require a festival offering, then the intermediate days, which are sanctified before and after, should all the more require a festival offering.

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