Exodus 12:2

New International Version

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

Cross References

Esther 3:7

In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur (that is, the lot) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

Exodus 12:1

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,

Exodus 12:18

In the first month 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 is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

Exodus 13:3

Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.

Exodus 13:4

Today, in the month of Aviv, you are leaving.

Exodus 23:15

“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

Exodus 34:18

“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

Exodus 40:17

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year.

Ezekiel 45:18

“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the first month on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45:21

“ ‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover, a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast.

Leviticus 23:5

The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Numbers 28:16

“ ‘On the fourteenth day of the first month the Lord’s Passover is to be held.

Deuteronomy 16:1

Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night.