Exodus 13:4
in Exodus 13Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.
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ASV
This day ye go forth in the month Abib.
KJV
This day came ye out in the month Abib.
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This verse in Exodus 13
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Abib - April. Compare Exo 12:2. It is uncertain whether this name was ancient or given then for the first time. It is found only in the Pentateuch, six times as the name of the first month, twice in the sense of young wheat, hence its etymology, namely, the month when the wheat began to ripen. The name resembles the Egyptian Epiphi, and may possibly have been derived from it.
This site's exposition
Remember this day, in which ye came out
on Exodus 13:3-4
The command that opens the speech is Remember, and what is to be remembered is a day rather than a doctrine. The phrase house of bondage occurs here for the first time in Scripture, returns at verse 14, and then stands at Exodus 20:2 as the preamble to the Ten Commandments. By strength of hand is new here as well and Moses says it three times in this chapter, at verses 3, 14 and 16, while verse 4 names the month Abib for the first time in Scripture.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
But if man groans and cries out to God, he sends him the spiritual Moses, who redeems him from the slavery of the Egyptians. But man first cries out and groans and then he receives the beginning of deliverance. And he is delivered in the …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
This day came ye out,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
month Abib--literally, "a green ear," and hence the month Abib is the month of green ears, corresponding to the middle of our March. It was the best season for undertaking a journey to the desert region of Sinai, especially with flocks and herds; for then the winter torrents had subsided, and the wadies were covered with an early and luxuriant verdure.
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The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַיּ֖וֹם | haiyom | this day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| אַתֶּ֣ם | ʾatem | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| יֹצְאִ֑ים | yotzeim | [are] about to go out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| בְּחֹ֖דֶשׁ | bechodesh | in [the] month of | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הָאָבִֽיב׃ | haaviv | <the> Abib | H24 → | 8 times |
הַיּ֖וֹםthis day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
אַתֶּ֣םyou
ʾatemH859 →1094 times
יֹצְאִ֑ים[are] about to go out
yotzeimH3318 →1067 times
בְּחֹ֖דֶשׁin [the] month of
bechodeshH2320 →284 times
הָאָבִֽיב׃<the> Abib
haavivH24 →8 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 12:2“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Exodus 34:18
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the…
- Exodus 23:15
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was…
- Leviticus 23:5
The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Numbers 28:16
The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Deuteronomy 16:1
Through
Exodus 23:15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was…
it leads to
- Luke 22:7
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
- Exodus 34:20
You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No…
- Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast…
- Luke 22:7
Where this verse is studied
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About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Pseudo-Macarius, HOMILY 47.7.