Exodus 12:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. ”

• Exodus 12:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This month - Abib Exodus 13:4 . It was called “Nisan” by the later Hebrews, and nearly corresponds to our April. The Israelites are directed to take Abib henceforth as the beginning of the year;...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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 ob...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Exodus 12:1-13 P. Rules for the Passover (first set). On the history of the Passover, see pp. 102f. Most ceremonial rules are dated from Sinai or the land of Moab: so these that follow are noted...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  month . Hebrew name Abib, or "green-ear-month". Becomes the first month, and the fifteenth the ruling date, henceforth. Compare Exodus 13:4 ; Exodus 23:15 . Deuteronomy 16:1 . Afterward called...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. This month shall be unto you the beginning of months - It is supposed that God now changed th...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months— The Jews, like most other nations, began their year, before this event, about the autumnal equinox, in the month Tisri, after their harvest and...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. This month shall be unto you the beginning of months, х ro'sh ( H7218 )] - head, or c...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Institution of the Passover. The Tenth Plague, and the Departure of Israel 1. In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was written independently of the foregoing narrative,...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 B...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XII. THE PASSOVER. Exodus 12:1-28 . We have now reached the birthday of the great Hebrew nation, and with it the first national institution, the feast of passover, which is also the...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Passover Lamb and its Sprinkled Blood Exodus 12:1-14 Henceforth, for Israel, there was to be a new beginning of the year. We should date our birthdays not from the cradle, but from the Cros...

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• Exodus 12:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  While the subjects necessarily intermingle at this point, we turn from the contemplation of the judgments of Jehovah in dealing with Pharaoh to that of deliverance in His dealings with Israel. As the...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  New mercies call for new memorandums, Deuteronomy 16:1 , Abib, that is the spring of the year. From this time the Israelites began their year. It should seem that before this period they reckoned th...

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• Exodus 12:2 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  A NEW START ‘This month shall be … the first month of the year to you.’ Exodus 12:2 Egypt behind—Sinai before—Canaan beyond—this is the exact account of the position of Israel when God said...

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• Exodus 12:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months ,.... Not only the first, as after expressed, but the chief and principal of them, now famous for their coming out of Egypt in it, and would be m...

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• Exodus 12:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you. Ver. 2. This month. ] Called Abib in Exodus 13:4 ; with us called March or April; when th...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Lord spake unto Moses Or had spoken before what is related in the foregoing chapter, if not also before the three days' darkness: but the mention of it was put off to this place, that the histo...

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• Exodus 12:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE PASSOVER FEAST (vs.1-28) The time finally arrives for the Lord to accomplish a work of amazing power in Egypt in the deliverance of a nation numbering over two million, from the bondage of Eg...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Appointment of the Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread. B. C. 1491.       1 And the L...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This month was the first month after the vernal equinox, called Abib , Exodus 13:4 , Exodus 23:15 Deuteronomy 16:1 , and Nissan , Nehemiah 2:1 Esther 3:7 ; containing part of our Marc...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Exodus 12 Instructions To Israel Concerning The Passover. This chapter is partly historical, and partly explanatory. It splits into a number of sections. (1) Exodus 12:1-14 contain the explana...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 12:1-2 THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR The nations of the globe have regarded various periods as the commencement of the year. The Athenians reckoned the c...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Scofield Reference Notes

  first month That is, April.

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• Exodus 12:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Exodus 12:2 We have here a new event, a new starting-point a new epoch, and therefore a new era. That event was an emancipation, a redemption, an exodus. There were centuries behind of exile and s...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Exodus 12:1-2 . And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. And for...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Exodus 12:2 . The first month of the year. This is called Abib, Exodus 13:4 ; and Nisan, Esther 3:7 . It was before the seventh month, hence the earth is supposed to have been created in Septemb...

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• Exodus 12:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The beginning of months. A new start I. The idea of a new start is naturally attractive to all of us. We are fatigued, we are dissatisfied, and justly so, with the time past of our lives. We lo...

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• Exodus 12:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  FIRST INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER . EXPOSITION THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER AND THE REASONS FOR IT .—In the interval allowed by God, according to the precedent of...

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• Exodus 12:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Ordinances Concerning the Passover

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• Exodus 12:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An Exodus Isr 1. Abib or Nisan Exodus 13:4 Exodus 23:15 Exodus 34:18 Leviticus 23:5 Numbers 28:16 Deuteronomy 16:1 Esther 3:7

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• Exodus 12:2 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Blood of the Cross in Exodus Exodus 12:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Today we will consider the Cross as it is set forth in the Book of Exodus. Of course, we cannot go into detail, but we will e...

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• Exodus 12:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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 t...

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