Exodus Chapter 12 verse 2 Holy Bible
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year.
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This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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"This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
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`This month `is' to you the chief of months -- it `is' the first to you of the months of the year;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2 - This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. The Israelite year would seem to have hitherto commenced with the autumnal equinox (Exodus 23:16), or at any rate with the month Tisri (or Ethanim), which corresponded to our October. Henceforth two reckonings were employed, one for sacred, the other for civil purposes, the first month of each year, sacred or civil, being the seventh month of the other. Abib, "the month of ears" - our April, nearly - became now the first month of the ecclesiastical year, while Tisri became its seventh or sabbatical month. It is remarkable that neither the Egyptians nor the Babylonians agreed with the original Israelite practice, the Egyptians commencing their year with Thoth, or July; and the Babylonians and Assyrians theirs with Nisannu, or April.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) The beginning of months.--Hitherto the Hebrews had commenced the year with Tisri, at or near the autumnal equinox. (See Exodus 23:16.) In thus doing, they followed neither the Egyptian nor the Babylonian custom. The Egyptians began the year in June, with the first rise of the Nile; the Babylonians in Nisannu, at the vernal equinox. It was this month which was now made, by God's command, the first month of the Hebrew year; but as yet it had not the name Nisan: it was called Abib (Exodus 13:4), the month of "greenness." Henceforth the Hebrews had two years, a civil and a sacred one (Joseph., Ant. Jud., i. 3, ? 3). The civil year began with Tisri, in the autumn, at the close of the harvest; the sacred year began with Abib (called afterwards Nisan), six months earlier. It followed that the first civil was the seventh sacred month, and vice versa.