Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you.

New American Standard Bible

This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

“This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.

International Standard Version

"This month will mark the beginning of months for you. It will be the first month of the year for you.

A Conservative Version

This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

“This month shall be the beginning of months to you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.

Bible in Basic English

Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

This month is to you the beginning of months: this to you the first month of the year.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

"This month [will be] the beginning of months; it [will be] for you the first of the months of the year.

Modern King James verseion

This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

NET Bible

"This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.

New Heart English Bible

"This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

The Emphasized Bible

This month, is, to you, a beginning of months, - the first, it is, to you, of the months of the year.

Webster

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

World English Bible

"This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

Youngs Literal Translation

This month is to you the chief of months -- it is the first to you of the months of the year;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

of months
חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

it shall be the first
ראשׁן ראשׁון 
Ri'shown 
Usage: 182

חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

of the year
שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 12:2

Context Readings

Instructions For The Passover

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 "This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you. 3 Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel, saying that they take, the tenth day of this month, to every household: a sheep.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:1

Observe the month of Abib, and offer Passover unto the LORD thy God. For in the month of Abib, the LORD thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night:

Exodus 13:4

This day come ye out of Egypt in the month of Abib.

Exodus 23:15

Thou shalt keep the feast of sweet bread, that thou eat unleavened bread seven days long as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the month of Abib, for in that month thou camest out of Egypt: and see that no man appear before me empty.

Exodus 34:18

The feast of sweet bread shalt thou keep, and seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed in the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib thou camest out of Egypt.

Leviticus 23:5

The fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the LORD's Passover.

Numbers 28:16

And the fourteenth day of the first month shall be Passover unto the LORD.

Esther 3:7

In the first month, that is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus they cast Pur - that is, a lot - before Haman, on what day and what month this should be done: and it went out the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.

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