Exodus 12:2

Verse 2. Year, sacred or ecclesiastical, which is most commonly used in Scripture. The civil year commenced with Tisri, in September, and regulated the jubilee, contracts, and so forth Lapide—January was the first month to determine the age of trees, and August to decide when cattle became liable to be tithed. Calmet. 22:29. Levit. 19:23. Calmet.—Before the captivity, the months were not styled Nisan, and so forth but abib, (Calmet. 13:4,) the first … Bul the 11th, (1 Kennicott. 6.), and so forth Sa.