1. Keep the month of the new fruit, {Heb. of Abib} and thou shalt do the passover unto the Lord thy God; for in the month of the new fruit the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
2. Thou shalt, therefore, sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the sheep and the cows, in the place which the Lord shall choose to cause his name to dwell therein.