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Exodus 12:2

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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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  1. Exodus 13:4Rank 1 from verse 2
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    4This day came ye out in the month Abib.

  2. Deuteronomy 16:1Rank 2 from verse 2
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    1OBSERVE the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

  3. Exodus 34:18Rank 3 from verse 2
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    18¶ The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

  4. Exodus 23:15Rank 4 from verse 2
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    15Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

  5. Leviticus 23:5Rank 5 from verse 2
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    5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover.

  6. Numbers 28:16Rank 6 from verse 2
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    16And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the Lord.

  7. Esther 3:7Rank 7 from verse 2
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    7¶ In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

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Exodus 12:2

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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12:1AND the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

12:2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

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