Exodus 12:2
Good News Translation
"This month is to be the first month of the year for you.

New Revised Standard Version
This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.

Contemporary English Version
This month is to be the first month of the year for you.

New American Bible
This month will stand at the head of your calendar; you will reckon it the first month of the year.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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2513. B.C.

1491. An Exodus Isr

1. Abib or Nisan

Exodus 13:4 This day you go forth in the month of new corn.

Exodus 23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.

Exodus 34:18 Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month of the new corn: for in the month of the spring time thou camest out from Egypt.

Leviticus 23:5 The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord.

Numbers 28:16 And in the first month, on the four tenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord,

Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.

Esther 3:7 In the first month (which is called Nisan) in the twelfth year of the reign of Assuerus, the lot was cast into an urn, which in Hebrew is called Phur, before Aman, on what day and what month the nation of the Jews should be destroyed: and there came out the twelfth month, which is called Adar.

Context
The First Passover
1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.3Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.…
Cross References
Exodus 12:1
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

Exodus 12:3
Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.

Exodus 12:18
The first month, the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the same month, in the evening.

Exodus 13:4
This day you go forth in the month of new corn.

Exodus 23:15
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.

Exodus 34:18
Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month of the new corn: for in the month of the spring time thou camest out from Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.

Ezekiel 45:18
Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of the month, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without blemish, and thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.

Exodus 12:1
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