Exodus 12:1
The Lord told Moses and Aaron while they were still in Egypt,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
In Context
2“This month will be for you the first month, the first month of your year.
Cross References
Exodus 11:2Now go and tell the Israelites, both men and women, to ask their Egyptian neighbors for silver and gold objects.”
Exodus 14:1The Lord told Moses,
Numbers 9:2“The Israelites are to keep the Passover at its designated time.
Numbers 9:5So they kept the Passover in the Sinai desert, beginning in the evening after sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites followed all the instructions the Lord had given to Moses.
Ezekiel 45:21You are to keep the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. This is a religious festival that lasts seven days, during which time bread made without yeast is to be eaten.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:1
This chapter gives an account of one of the most memorable ordinances, and one of the most memorable providences, of all that are recorded in the Old Testament. I. Not one of all the ordinances of the Jewish church was more eminent than that of the passover, nor is any one more frequently mentioned in the New Testament; and we have here an account of the institution to it. The ordinance consisted of three parts:—1. The killing and eating of the paschal lamb, ver. 1-6 , 8-11 . 2. The sprinkling of the blood upon… Read the whole commentary →