Exodus 12:2 ““This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first…”

Exodus 12:2

“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

World English Bible

“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

American Standard Version

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Geneva Bible 1599

This moneth shalbe vnto you the beginning of moneths: it shalbe to you the first moneth of the yere.

Darby Translation

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Young's Literal Translation

'This month [is] to you the chief of months — it [is] the first to you of the months of the year;

Bible in Basic English

Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year.

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Cross references

“A. M. 2513. B.C. 1491. Abib or Nisan”

Exodus 13:4 Deuteronomy 16:1 Exodus 34:18 Exodus 23:15 Leviticus 23:5 Numbers 28:16

Exodus 13:4 · BSB

Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.

Deuteronomy 16:1 · BSB

Observe 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.

Exodus 34:18 · BSB

You 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 23:15 · BSB

You 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 ap…

Leviticus 23:5 · BSB

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Numbers 28:16 · BSB

The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

3Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.

Read Exodus 12