Exodus 12:2

Exodus 12:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
• New International Version (NIV)“This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Context of Exodus 12:2

1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year. 3Tell the whole community of Israel, ‘In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families – a lamb for each household. 4If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people – you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.

Exodus 12:2 word by word

הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם רֹ֣אשׁ חֳדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשׁ֥וֹן הוּא֙ לָכֶ֔ם לְחָדְשֵׁ֖י הַשָּׁנָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• This monthחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• unto you the beginningרֹאשׁrô'sh · head: firstH7218
• the firstרִאשׁוֹןri'shôn ri'shôn · firstH7223
• of the yearשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141

Cross-references for Exodus 12:2

• Exodus 13:4On this day, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
• Exodus 23:15You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before me empty-handed.
• Exodus 34:18“You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
• Leviticus 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the Lord.
• Numbers 28:16“‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord’s Passover.
• Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.
• Esther 3:7In the first month (that is, the month of Nisan), in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus’ reign, pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman in order to determine a day and a month. It turned out to be the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar).

Commentaries on Exodus 12:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months - It is supposed that God now changed the commencement of the Jewish year. The month to which this verse refers, the month Abib, answers to a part of our March and April; whereas it is supposed that previously to this the year began with Tisri, which answers to a part of our September; for in this month the Jews suppose God created the world, when the earth appeared at once with all its fruits in…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2This month - Abib Exodus 13:4. It was called “Nisan” by the later Hebrews, and nearly corresponds to our April. The Israelites are directed to take Abib henceforth as the beginning of the year; the year previously began with the month Tisri, when the harvest was gathered in; see Exodus 23:16. The injunction touching Abib or Nisan referred only to religious rites; in other affairs they retained the old arrangement, even in the beginning of the Sabbatic…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2This month was the month Abib (13:4; 23:15; 34:18; Deuteronomy 16:1; later called by the Babylonian name, Nisan, Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7). This time falls within the months of March and April. Many cultures held festivals about this time of the year, celebrating the renewal of plant life. Israel’s festival celebrated the historic event in which God defeated death and rescued his people from bondage in Egypt.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. this month shall be unto you the beginning of months--the first not only in order but in estimation. It had formerly been the seventh according to the reckoning of the civil year, which began in September, and continued unchanged, but it was thenceforth to stand first in the national religious year which began in March, April.Read the comment

Topics related to Exodus 12:2

• Abib
• Chronology
• Israel
• Month
• Year

In the dictionaries

• Blood
• Convocation
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• Passover
• Purtenance
• Sojourning

Commentaries on Exodus 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings