Exodus 12:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.

Cross References

Esther 3:7

In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur—which means “the lot”—before Haman for the day and for the month, and the lot fell on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

Exodus 12:1

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 12:18

In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you shall eat unleavened bread.

Exodus 12:3

Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household.

Exodus 13:3

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, because the Lord brought you out from there by strength of hand; no leavened bread shall be eaten.

Exodus 13:4

Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.

Exodus 23:15

You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. “No one shall appear before me empty-handed.

Exodus 34:18

“You shall keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

Exodus 40:17

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

Ezekiel 45:18

“Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull of the herd without blemish and purify the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45:21

“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Festival of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.

Leviticus 23:5

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, there shall be a Passover offering to the Lord,

Numbers 28:16

“On the fourteenth day of the first month there shall be a Passover offering to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:1

“Observe the month of Abib by keeping the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.