Exodus 12:2

What does Exodus 12:2 mean?

A plain-English look at Exodus 12:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

`This month <FI>is<Fi> to you the chief of months--it <FI>is<Fi> the first to you of the months of the year;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Context

v.1And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

v.2This passage

v.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 their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Leviticus 23:5

    In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah’s passover.

  • Exodus 23:15

    The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty:

  • Deuteronomy 16:1

    Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto Jehovah thy God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

  • Exodus 34:18

    The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

  • Numbers 28:16

    And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Jehovah’s passover.

  • Esther 3:7

    In the first month, which 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, which is the month Adar.

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