Revised Literal Translation
Exodus 12:2
2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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
1And Yhwh spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3Speak 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: 4And 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.
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הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם רֹ֣אשׁ חֳדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשׁ֥וֹן הוּא֙ לָכֶ֔ם לְחָדְשֵׁ֖י הַשָּׁנָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Exodus 12:2
- Exodus 13:4This day came ye out in the month Abib.
- 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:)
- 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.
- Leviticus 23:5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is Yhwh's passover.
- Numbers 28:16And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of Yhwh.
- Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto Yhwh thy God: for in the month of Abib Yhwh thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
- 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.
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
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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
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