Exodus 12:2

+ 12:2. Ex 12:2 (#4.262): T. To sanctify the first new month of Nissan ·Their flight· and to count Nissan as the first month of the civil calendar / R. The court is to calculate and determine when a new month begins Compare: Pesac ·Passover· is described as beginning on 10th day of Nissan. The Rabbis view Nissan as the first of the “Religious Calendar” because as the Rabbis determined, and therefore Judaism observes, the seventh month as the first month of the “Civil Calendar”. In Hebrew the seventh month’s name is Ethanim ·Ever flowing streams·, in Babylonian it is called Tishrei ·Beginning· / (See more notes in Lev 23:10 OU297) “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month Nissan ·Miracles (in Aramaic), 1· of the year to you.

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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

1Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out] and Aaron [Light-bringer] in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], saying,

3Speak to all the congregation of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘On 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 13:4Today you go out in the first month Aviv ·Ripening grain (of a new crop), 1·.

Exodus 34:18“You shall keep the festival of Matzah ·Unleavened bread·. Seven days you shall eat matzah ·unleavened bread·, as I enjoined you, at the time appointed in the first month Aviv ·Ripening grain (of a new crop), 1·; for in the first month Aviv ·Ripening grain (of a new crop), 1· you came out of Egypt [Abode of slavery].

Leviticus 23:5In the first month Nissan ·Miracles (in Aramaic), 1·, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Adonai’s Pesac ·Passover·.

Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Pesac ·Passover· to Adonai your God; for in the month of Abib Adonai your God brought you out of Egypt [Abode of slavery] by night.

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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