Exodus 12:2

'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

In Context

1And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying:

3Speak 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 their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;

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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 dusk, is the LORD'S passover.

Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God; for in the month of Abib the 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 →

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