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Answer:
Actually, the Torah only refers to the afternoon of the 14th as
Passover. This is the time during which the Passover offering was
brought. It doesn't even imply that the day was named "Passover", just
that it refers to that period as "during the Passover [offering]". The
offering was actually eaten that night, on the fifteenth, the begining
of the holiday the Torah calls Chag haMatzos (the holiday of matzahs).
Why the name change? We call the holiday "Passover" to commemorate
what G-d did for us. He passed over the Israelites' homes and saved
them from Egypt. However, in writing the Torah, G-d stresses what man
did and does. So in the text of the bible, the name is taken from the
commandment of the day.
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