1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
This day came ye out in the month Abib.
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. …
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)Much of the communion between God and his people Israel was kept up, and a face of religion preserved in the nation, by the three yearly feasts, the institution of which, and the laws concerning them, we have several times met with already; and here they are repeated. I. The law of the passover, so great a solemnity that it made the whole month, in the midst of which it was placed, considerable: O…
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