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Exodus 12:2

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— This month [shall be] to you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— This month, is, to you, a beginning of months,—the first, it is, to you, of the months of the year.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 'This month [is] to you the chief of months—it [is] the first to you of the months of the year;
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— This moneth shalbe vnto you the beginning of moneths: it shalbe to you the first moneth of the yere.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— This moneth [shalbe] vnto you the beginning of moneths: it shall be the first moneth of the yeere to you.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— This month [shall be] to you the beginning of months: it is the first to you among the months of the year.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
This x2088
(2088) Complement
זֶה
zeh
{zeh}
A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that.
month 2320
{2320} Prime
חֹדֶשׁ
chodesh
{kho'-desh}
From H2318; the new moon; by implication a month.
[shall be] unto you the beginning 7218
{7218} Prime
רֹאשׁ
ro'sh
{roshe}
From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literally or figuratively (in many applications, of place, time, rank, etc.).
of months: 2320
{2320} Prime
חֹדֶשׁ
chodesh
{kho'-desh}
From H2318; the new moon; by implication a month.
it x1931
(1931) Complement
הוּא
huw'
{hoo}
The second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are.
[shall be] the first 7223
{7223} Prime
רִאשׁוֹן
ri'shown
{ree-shone'}
From H7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun).
month 2320
{2320} Prime
חֹדֶשׁ
chodesh
{kho'-desh}
From H2318; the new moon; by implication a month.
of the year 8141
{8141} Prime
שָׁנֵה
shaneh
{shaw-neh'}
(The first form being in plural only, the second form being feminine); from H8138; a year (as a revolution of time).
to you.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Exodus 12:2

_ _ this month shall be unto you the beginning of months — the first not only in order but in estimation. It had formerly been the seventh according to the reckoning of the civil year, which began in September, and continued unchanged, but it was thenceforth to stand first in the national religious year which began in March, April.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Exodus 12:1-20.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Exodus 12:2

This shall be to you the beginning of months — They had hitherto begun their year from the middle of September, but hence — forward they were to begin it from the middle of March, at least in all their ecclesiastical computations. We may suppose that while Moses was bringing the ten plagues upon the Egyptians, he was directing the Israelites to prepare for their departure at an hour's warning. Probably he had, by degrees, brought them near together from their dispersions, for they are here called the congregation of Israel; and to them, as a congregation, orders are here sent.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Exodus 12:2

This (a) month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first (b) month of the year to you.

(a) Called Nisan, containing part of March and part of April.

(b) Concerning the observation of feasts: as for other policies, they reckoned from September.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
am 2513, bc 1491, An, Exod, Isr, 1, Abib or Nisan,
Exodus 13:4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
Exodus 23:15 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:)
Exodus 34:18 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.
Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD'S passover.
Numbers 28:16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the passover of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 16:1 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.
Esther 3:7 In the first month, that [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], that [is], the month Adar.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Ex 13:4; 23:15; 34:18. Lv 23:5. Nu 28:16. Dt 16:1. Es 3:7.

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