📦Abib

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Abib is the first month of the year in the Hebrew calendar. This month is when Passover occurred, and it also commemorates the beginning of the Hebrew people's national identity. Passover is on the 14th day of Abib.

Exodus 12:1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,Exodus 12:2“This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.
Exodus 13:4On this day, in the month of Abib, you came out.

This month was also called Nisan.

Nehemiah 2:1In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought before him, I took some and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before;
Esther 3:7In the first month, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, the lot) in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

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