Exodus 12:2
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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In Context
1And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 13:4This day ye go forth in the month Abib.
Exodus 34:18The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
Leviticus 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah`s passover.
Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto 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], 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 →