Exodus 12:2
“This month [is] the chief of months to you—it [is] the first of the months of the year to you;
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In Context
1And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 13:4you are going out today, in the month of Abib.
Exodus 34:18You keep the Celebration of Unleavened Things; [for] seven days you eat unleavened things, as I have commanded you, at an appointed time, [in] the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
Leviticus 23:5in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, [is] the Passover to YHWH;
Deuteronomy 16:1“Observe the month of Abib, and you have made a Passover to your God YHWH, for in the month of Abib your God YHWH has brought you out of Egypt by night;
Ezekiel 45:21In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, you have the Passover, a celebration of seven days, unleavened bread is 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 →