Exodus 12:2
New International Version
“This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

New Living Translation
“From now on, this month will be the first month of the year for you.

English Standard Version
“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.

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

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

New King James Version
“This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

New American Standard Bible
“This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you.

NASB 1995
“This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.

NASB 1977
“This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.

Legacy Standard Bible
“This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.

Amplified Bible
“This month shall be the beginning of months to you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.

Christian Standard Bible
“This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“This month shall be to you the beginning month before me; it shall be to you for all months of the year.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it is the first to you among the months of the year.

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"This month will be the very first month of the year for you.

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

International Standard Version
"This month will mark the beginning of months for you. It will be the first month of the year for you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Literal Standard Version
“This month [is] the chief of months to you—it [is] the first of the months of the year to you;

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

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

NET Bible
"This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.

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.

New Heart English Bible
"This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
This month shall be to 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.

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;

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Audio Bible



Context
The First Passover
1Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year. 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.…

Cross References
Exodus 12:1
Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 12:3
Tell 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.

Exodus 12:18
In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Exodus 13:4
Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.

Exodus 23:15
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 appear before Me empty-handed.

Exodus 34:18
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.

Deuteronomy 16:1
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.


Treasury of Scripture

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

A.

Exodus 13:4
This day came ye out in the month Abib.

Exodus 23:15
Thou 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:)

Exodus 34:18
The 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.

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3. The Passover is instituted
11. The import of the rite of the Passover
15. Unleavened bread
29. The firstborn are slain
31. The Israelites are driven out of the land
37. They come to Succoth
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(2) The beginning of months.--Hitherto the Hebrews had commenced the year with Tisri, at or near the autumnal equinox. (See Exodus 23:16.) In thus doing, they followed neither the Egyptian nor the Babylonian custom. The Egyptians began the year in June, with the first rise of the Nile; the Babylonians in Nisannu, at the vernal equinox. It was this month which was now made, by God's command, the first month of the Hebrew year; but as yet it had not the name Nisan: it was called Abib (Exodus 13:4), the month of "greenness." Henceforth the Hebrews had two years, a civil and a sacred one (Joseph., Ant. Jud., i. 3, ? 3). The civil year began with Tisri, in the autumn, at the close of the harvest; the sacred year began with Abib (called afterwards Nisan), six months earlier. It followed that the first civil was the seventh sacred month, and vice versa.

Verse 2 - This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. The Israelite year would seem to have hitherto commenced with the autumnal equinox (Exodus 23:16), or at any rate with the month Tisri (or Ethanim), which corresponded to our October. Henceforth two reckonings were employed, one for sacred, the other for civil purposes, the first month of each year, sacred or civil, being the seventh month of the other. Abib, "the month of ears" - our April, nearly - became now the first month of the ecclesiastical year, while Tisri became its seventh or sabbatical month. It is remarkable that neither the Egyptians nor the Babylonians agreed with the original Israelite practice, the Egyptians commencing their year with Thoth, or July; and the Babylonians and Assyrians theirs with Nisannu, or April.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“This
הַזֶּ֛ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

month
הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ (ha·ḥō·ḏeš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month

is the beginning
רֹ֣אשׁ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7218: The head

of months for you;
חֳדָשִׁ֑ים (ḥo·ḏā·šîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month

it [shall be]
הוּא֙ (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

the first
רִאשׁ֥וֹן (ri·šō·wn)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7223: First, in place, time, rank

month
לְחָדְשֵׁ֖י (lə·ḥā·ḏə·šê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month

of your
לָכֶ֔ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

year.
הַשָּׁנָֽה׃ (haš·šā·nāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year


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