Exodus 12:2

Good News Translation

“This month is to be the first month of the year for you.

Cross References

Esther 3:7

In the twelfth year of King Xerxes' rule, in the first month, the month of Nisan, Haman ordered the lots to be cast (“purim,” they were called) to find out the right day and month to carry out his plot. The thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, was decided on.

Exodus 12:1

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Egypt:

Exodus 12:18

From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month to the evening of the twenty-first day, you must not eat any bread made with yeast.

Exodus 12:3

Give these instructions to the whole community of Israel: On the tenth day of this month each man must choose either a lamb or a young goat for his household.

Exodus 13:3

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day—the day on which you left Egypt, the place where you were slaves. This is the day the Lord brought you out by his great power. No leavened bread is to be eaten.

Exodus 13:4

You are leaving Egypt on this day in the first month, the month of Abib.

Exodus 23:15

In the month of Abib, the month in which you left Egypt, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you. Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival. Never come to worship me without bringing an offering.

Exodus 34:18

“Keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I have commanded you, eat unleavened bread for seven days in the month of Abib, because it was in that month that you left Egypt.

Exodus 40:17

So on the first day of the first month of the second year after they left Egypt, the Tent of the Lord's presence was set up.

Ezekiel 45:18

The Sovereign Lord said, “On the first day of the first month you are to sacrifice a bull without any defects and purify the Temple.

Ezekiel 45:21

“On the fourteenth day of the first month you will begin the celebration of the Passover Festival. For seven days everyone will eat bread made without yeast.

Leviticus 23:5

The Passover, celebrated to honor the Lord, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Numbers 28:16

The Passover Festival in honor of the Lord is to be held on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Deuteronomy 16:1

“Honor the Lord your God by celebrating Passover in the month of Abib; it was on a night in that month that he rescued you from Egypt.