“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
Parallel translations
- WEB “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
- KJV This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- NKJV “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- NASB “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you.
- NLT “From now on, this month will be the first month of the year for you.
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Quick answer
God resets Israel's calendar so this month of redemption becomes the first month of their year, marking a new beginning.
Overview
The night of deliverance is to reorder all of Israel's time, becoming the start of their sacred calendar (the month later called Abib/Nisan, in spring). Redemption marks a fresh beginning for God's people. This points forward to the new life believers receive in Christ, whose death and resurrection inaugurate a new creation and a new reckoning of life.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Exod 13:4Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.
- Deut 16:1Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Exod 34:18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
- Exod 23:15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
- Lev 23:5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Num 28:16The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Esth 3:7In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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