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You will eat it this way: and you will eat it with haste: it is the Passover of the Lord.
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 10, 70, in Ralph Marcus (tr. & ed.), Josephus with an English translation, vol. 6 (Jewish Antiquities, books IX–XI), LCL, pages 194-197. Translation by Marcus.
and having thus purified the entire country, he called the people together at Jerusalem and there celebrated the festival of Unleavened Bread and that called Passover (Pascha). He also presented gifts to the people for the Passover (consisting of) thirty thousand kids and lambs, and three thousand oxen for the whole burnt-offerings.
And you will say to them: "This paschal lamb is a sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the homes of the Israelites in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians, yet our homes he spared."
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 11, 110, in Ralph Marcus (tr. & ed.), Josephus with an English translation, vol. 6 (Jewish Antiquities, books IX–XI), LCL, pages 366-369. Translation by Marcus, comment in square brackets not his.
and, after offering the sacrifice called Pascha on the fourteenth of the same month , they feasted for seven days, sparing no expense but bringing the whole burnt-offerings to God and performing the sacrifices of thanksgiving because the Deity had brought them back to the land of their fathers and to its laws, and had disposed the mind of the Persian king favourably to them.