Today you go out in the month Abib.
Parallel translations
- KJV This day came ye out in the month Abib.
- BSB Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.
- NKJV On this day you are going out, in the month Abib.
- NASB On this day in the month of Abib, you are about to go out from here.
- NLT On this day in early spring, in the month of Abib, you have been set free.
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Quick answer
Moses notes that they are going out in the month Abib.
Overview
The departure occurs in Abib (later Nisan), the spring month God appointed as the first of the year. Naming the month anchors the redemption in real time and ties it to the annual feast Israel will keep. The specificity reflects that God's saving acts happen in history and are to be commemorated at their appointed season.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Exod 34:18“You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
- Exod 23:15You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
- Exod 12:2“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Deut 16:1–3Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
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