From Rabbi Allan Ullman:

Who was said to be the first to tell the Passover story?

It was not the Rabbis in the middle ages...nor even Moses after the Exodus...but God.to Abraham in Genesis 15:13, where, when Abraham is despairing his lack of a son, God tells Abraham, in a covenantal promise, that his decendants will be as numerous as the stars. God goes on to say "Know well that your offspring will be strangers in a land not theirs, and they shall be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years; but I will execute judgment on the nation they shall serve, and in the end, they shall go free with great wealth." 

What's the significance of the fact that the story is mentioned as part of the covenant with Abraham? What does it highlight about Passover?


haggadah Section: Maggid - Beginning