Questions In The Passover Haggadah

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The Passover Haggadah uses four questions in which introduces a new concept into the retelling the Exodus story. The Exodus story shows how there would be a festival to the Lord, in which generations would observe it as a perceptual ordinance. However in the Passover Haggadah the four questions that are ask contradict everything that Moses said in Exodus. Moses states that for seven days leading up to the festival, that unleavened bread should not be eaten; however, in the Passover Haggadah it states that on all other nights the people have been able to eat both unleavened bread or leavened bread, that there was no problem in which the people decided to eat. This demonstrates a different view of the story of Exodus because, on one side Moses

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