Exodus 12:2
This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
1And LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 13:4This day ye go forth in the month Abib.
Exodus 34:18Thou shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib thou came out from Egypt.
Leviticus 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is LORD's Passover.
Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to LORD thy God, for in the month of Abib LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Ezekiel 45:21In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days. Unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:2-21
The Appointment of the Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his… Read the whole commentary →