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Exodus 12:2

Exodus 12:2
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months,.... Not only the first, as after expressed, but the chief and principal of them, now famous for their coming out of Egypt in it, and would be more…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

This month - Abib Exo 13:4. It was called “Nisan” by the later Hebrews, and nearly corresponds to our April. The Israelites are directed to take Abib henceforth as the beginning of the year; the year…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months - It is supposed that God now changed the commencement of the Jewish year. The month to which this verse refers, the month Abib, answers to a part…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Exodus 12:1-20

Moses and Aaron here receive of the Lord what they were afterwards to deliver to the people concerning the ordinance of the passover, to which is prefixed an order for a new style to be observed in…