The First Passover
Exodus 12:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
- KJV
- This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- WEB
- “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
- ASV
- This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- LSV
- “This month [is] the chief of months to you—it [is] the first of the months of the year to you;
- YLT
- 'This month [is] to you the chief of months — it [is] the first to you of the months of the year;
- DBY
- This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- DRC
- This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first in the months of the year.
- GNV
- This moneth shalbe vnto you the beginning of moneths: it shalbe to you the first moneth of the yere.
- JPS
- 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- LXXE
- This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it is the first to you among the months of the year.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם רֹ֣אשׁ חֳדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשׁ֥וֹן הוּא֙ לָכֶ֔ם לְחָדְשֵׁ֖י הַשָּׁנָֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- ὁ μὴν οὗτος ὑμῖν ἀρχὴ μηνῶν· πρῶτός ἐστιν ὑμῖν ἐν τοῖς μησὶ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ.
Who and where
◆ Exodus from Egypt
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 13:4Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.
- Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Exodus 34:18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
- Exodus 23:15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may…
- Leviticus 23:5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Numbers 28:16The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Esther 3:7In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
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