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(5) [248] In the month of Xanthicus, which is called Nisan by us and begins our year, on the fourteenth day of the lunar month, when the sun is in Aries, this month when we were saved from slavery under the Egyptians, every year by law we offer that sacrifice, called the Passover, as we did when we came from Egypt, and so we celebrate it in companies, preserving no part of what is sacrificed until the following day.
[249] After the passover, on the fifteenth comes the feast of the Azymes, lasting for seven days, when they eat unleavened bread. On each of these days two bulls are killed and one ram and seven lambs. These are entirely burned, with the kid goat added in as a sin-offering, as a treat for the priest on each of those days.
[250] On the second day of unleavened bread, which is the sixteenth day of the month, they first partake of the fruits of the earth, and up to then they do not touch them. They think it right to honour God, from whom they receive this bounty, by first of all offering the first-fruits of their barley in this way.
[251] They take a handful of the ears and dry them and thresh them, to separate the barley from the bran. They then bring one assar to the altar, to God, and throw a handful of it upon the fire, leaving the rest for the use of the priests. Then they may reap their harvest, whether publicly or privately. At this time of first-fruits they also sacrifice a lamb in holocaust to God. (6) [252] When after this sacrifice a week of weeks has passed, that is forty nine days, on the fiftieth day, called by the Hebrews Asartha, which means Pentecost, they bring to God a loaf of wheat flour, of two assars, with leaven, and a sacrifice of two lambs.
[253] After these are duly presented to God, they are made ready as supper for the priests, and nothing of them may be left until the morrow. They also offer in holocaust three bullocks and two rams, and fourteen lambs, with two kid goats, for sins.
[254] None of the festivals is without holocausts, and on each of them they also allow themselves to rest from work. The law prescribes for all what kinds of sacrifice to offer and how to be at ease and to rejoice in their sacrifices.With the gracious permission of the translator, Rev. Dr. Patrick Rogers, Dublin (all rights reserved)

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