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Exodus 12:2

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial
KJV ORIGINAL
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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✦ MADE SIMPLE

This month will be the beginning of months for you: it will be the first month of your year.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

God is establishing a new calendar for the Israelites, marking this moment as the beginning of their new life as His people.

📚 Historical Context

God spoke these words to Moses and Aaron just before the first Passover in Egypt. He was instituting a new religious calendar that would begin with the month of Abib (later called Nisan), which falls around March-April in our modern calendar. This marked a complete fresh start for the Hebrew people as they prepared to leave slavery and become God's chosen nation.

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The original manuscript text provided is based on the King James Version (KJV), which is in the public domain. Our modern English simplifications are generated via proprietary philological synthesis, cross-referenced against Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and the Textus Receptus to ensure unwavering theological and etymological precision.

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