Exodus 12:2
“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.
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- Deut 16:1 : 1 The Passover-Unleavened Bread Festival Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Exod 13:4 : 4 On this day, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
- Exod 23:15 : 15 You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before me empty-handed.
- Exod 34:18 : 18 “You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
- Lev 23:5 : 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the LORD.
- Num 28:16 : 16 Passover and Unleavened Bread“‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Esth 3:7 : 7 In the first month(that is, the month of Nisan), in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus’ reign, pur(that is, the lot) was cast before Haman in order to determine a day and a month. It turned out to be the twelfth month(that is, the month of Adar).
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