Exodus 12:2

New Century Version

“This month will be the beginning of months, the first month of the year for you.

Cross References

Esther 3:7

It was in the first month of the twelfth year of King Xerxes’ rule—the month of Nisan. Pur (that is, the lot) was thrown before Haman to choose a day and a month. So the twelfth month, the month of Adar, was chosen.

Exodus 12:1

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

Exodus 12:18

In the first month of the year you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Exodus 12:3

Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must get one lamb for the people in his house.

Exodus 13:3

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, the day you left Egypt. You were slaves in that land, but the Lord with his great power brought you out of it. You must not eat bread made with yeast.

Exodus 13:4

Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving Egypt.

Exodus 23:15

You must celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the way I commanded you. For seven days you must eat bread that is made without yeast at the set time during the month of Abib, the month when you came out of Egypt. No one is to come to worship me without bringing an offering.

Exodus 34:18

“Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast as I commanded you. Do this during the month I have chosen, the month of Abib, because in that month you came out of Egypt.

Exodus 40:17

So the Holy Tent was set up on the first day of the first month during the second year after they left Egypt.

Ezekiel 45:18

“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: On the first day of the first month take a young bull that has nothing wrong with it. Use it to make the Temple pure and ready for God’s service.

Ezekiel 45:21

“ ‘On the fourteenth day of the first month you will celebrate the Feast of Passover. It will be a feast of seven days when you eat bread made without yeast.

Leviticus 23:5

The Lord’s Passover is on the fourteenth day of the first month, beginning at twilight.

Numbers 28:16

“ ‘The Lord’s Passover will be on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Deuteronomy 16:1

Celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God during the month of Abib, because it was during Abib that he brought you out of Egypt at night.