Exodus 12:2

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This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of the year for you.

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  • Deut 16:1 : 1 Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for it was in the month of Abib that the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
  • Exod 13:4 : 4 Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.
  • Exod 23:15 : 15 Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. Do not appear before me empty-handed.
  • Exod 34:18 : 18 You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
  • Lev 23:5 : 5 The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
  • Num 28:16 : 16 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Passover to the LORD.
  • Esth 3:7 : 7 In the first month, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, the lot) before Haman for each day and each month, until the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

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    4So Moses told the people of Israel to keep the Passover.

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    16In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Passover to the LORD.

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