Exodus 12:2
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 13:4Ye come out to-day, in the month Abib.
Exodus 34:18The feast of the unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded thee, at the appointed time of the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
Leviticus 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover to Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 16:1Keep the month of Abib, and celebrate the passover to Jehovah thy God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Ezekiel 45:21In the first [month], on 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 →