Exodus 12:2

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

Leeser Tanakh

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, On the tenth day of this month they shall take to themselves every man a lamb for every family, a lamb for every house:

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Cross References

Exodus 13:4This day go ye out, in the month of Abib.

Exodus 34:18The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded thee, in the time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib thou wentest forth out of Egypt.

Leviticus 23:5On the fourteenth day of the first month, toward evening, is the passover-lamb to be offered unto the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib, and prepare the passover-sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; for in the month of Abib did the Lord thy God bring thee forth out of Egypt by night.

Ezekiel 45:21In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall ye 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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