Exodus 12:2
'This month [is] to you the chief of months — it [is] the first to you of the months of the year;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 13:4To-day ye are going out, in the month of Abib.
Exodus 34:18'The feast of unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at an appointed time, the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib thou didst come out from Egypt.
Leviticus 23:5in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, [is] the passover to Jehovah;
Deuteronomy 16:1'Observe the month of Abib — and thou hast made a passover to Jehovah thy God, for in the month of Abib hath Jehovah thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night;
Ezekiel 45:21'In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, ye have the passover, a feast of seven days, unleavened food 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 →