2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
This day came ye out in the month Abib.
Observe 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.
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.
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread:(thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 their months ( Exod. 12:1 , 2 ): This shall be to you the beginning of months . They had hitherto begun their year from the middle of September, but henceforward they were to begin it from the middle of…
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