^2 (A)“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.

⁴ Today, in the month of ^(A)Abib, you are going out.

Passover

16 “Observe the ^(A)month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for ^(B)in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

^18 (A)“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in ^(B)the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.

^15 (A)You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of ^(B)Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. ^(C)None shall appear before me empty-handed.

Passover Offerings

^16 (A)“On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord's Passover,

^5 (A)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight,^[a] is the Lord's Passover.

⁷ In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, ^(A)they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is ^(B)the month of Adar.