Exodus 13 · Verse 4

Exodus 13:4

This day came ye out in the month Abib.
Exodus 13:4, King James Version

Exodus 13:4 in other translations

BSBToday, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.
WEBToday you go out in the month Abib.
ASVThis day ye go forth in the month Abib.
YLTTo-day ye are going out, in the month of Abib.
DARBYYe come out to-day, in the month Abib.
BBEOn this day, in the month Abib, you are going out.
WebsterThis day ye came out in the month Abib.

What does Exodus 13:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 13:1-10

Chapter Outline The first-born sanctified to God, The remembrance of the passover commanded. (1-10) The firstlings of beasts set apart. (11-16) Joseph's bones carried with the Israelites, They come to Etham. (17-20) God guideth the Israelites by a pillar of cloud fire. (21-22) Verses 1-10 In remembrance of the destruction of the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of beast, and the deliverance of the Israelites out…

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Exodus 13:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַיּ֖וֹםhai.Yomthis dayH3117
אַתֶּ֣ם'a.TemyouH859
יֹצְאִ֑יםyo.tze.'Im[are] about to go outH3318
בְּחֹ֖דֶשׁbe.Cho.deshin [the] month ofH2320
הָאָבִֽיב\׃ha.'a.Viv<the> AbibH24

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 13:4

  • Exodus 34:18

    The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

  • Exodus 23:15

    Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

  • Exodus 12:2

    This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

  • Deuteronomy 16:1-3

    Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Abib.
23:15; 34:18; De 16:1-3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 13:3

    And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

  • Exodus 13:4

    This day came ye out in the month Abib.

  • Exodus 13:5

    And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

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Exodus 13:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Vosotros salís hoy en el mes de Abib.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Vous sortez aujourd’hui, au mois d’Abib.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Heute ziehet ihr aus, im Monat Abib.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Hodie egredimini mense novarum frugum.