KJV King James Version
This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.
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Exodus 12:2
This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
WEB World English Bible
“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
ASV American Standard Version
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
YLT 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;
Surrounding context — Exodus 12
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 neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats:
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Exodus 13:4This day came ye out in the month Abib.Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.Exodus 34:18The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.Exodus 23:15Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)Leviticus 23:5In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD’S passover.Numbers 28:16And in the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the passover of the LORD.Esther 3:7In the first month, that [is], the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Adar.
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