Exodus 12:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.”
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““This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”
King James Version · Public Domain“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`This month <FI>is<Fi> to you the chief of months--it <FI>is<Fi> the first to you of the months of the year;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 12:2 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 13:3So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
- Exodus 13:4Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.
- Exodus 23:15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
- Exodus 34:18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
- Exodus 40:17So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
- Leviticus 23:5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Numbers 28:16The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Esther 3:7In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
- Ezekiel 45:21On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.
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