Abib

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Also called NISAN

First month in the Jewish calendar

• Exodus 12:2 “This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

Passover instituted, and Israelites depart from Egypt in

• 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 the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
• 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.

Tabernacle set up in

• Exodus 40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
• Exodus 40:17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

Israelites arrive at the wilderness of Zin in

• Numbers 20:1 In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

Enter Canaan in

• Joshua 4:19 On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

Jordan's overflow in

• 1 Chronicles 12:15 These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.