King James Version
Exodus 12:2 in the King James Version says “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”
Exodus 12:2 · KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: lamb: or, kid
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“shall be unto you the beginning”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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