Scripture about determining Abib 1

Rhy Bezuidenhout 2 yrs

As part of our investigation this month into how to determine Abib 1, please add your Bible verses in the comments below then I will collate it into the main body of this Forum post so that we can draw up a table of contents.

One question that does come to mind, should we include verses pertaining to winter being over and not directly referring to Abib 1 and Passover? The reason I ask this is that there are a number of different "determinations" which look at things like fig trees, grapes, bird migrations, the equilux, etc.

Verses directly mentioning the Abib 1 or Passover:

1. Leviticus 23 - Feast dates

1. Shemowth (Exo.) 9:31 And the flax and the barley were slain (struck), as the barley was Ripened (ábhiyb), and the flax was budded.


2. Shemowth (Exo.) 12:2 This month is the head of months for you; such is head-first for you, for the months of the year.


3. Shemowth (Exo.) 13:4 Today are you emerging; in the Month of the Ripened (ábhiybh).


4. Shemowth (Exo.) 34:18 You will guard the Celebration of the Mazzowth; seven days will you eat mazzowth, that [which] I have commanded you for the Appointed-time of the Month of the Ripened (ábhiybh); as in the Month of the Ripened, you emerged from Mizzrayim.


5. Leviticus 2:14 ‘If you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the Lord, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened things.


6. Leviticus 23:10-11 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.


7. Debhariym (Deut.) 16:1 “Guard the Month of the Ripened (ábhiybh), and perform the Pesach before Yehovah your God;
   as in the Month of the Ripened, Yehovah your God had you to emerge from Mizzrayim before the Night (meaning while it was Night).

1. Psa 81:3 BSB Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.

1. Exodus 12:18-19a In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses.


2. Exodus 23:16 AMP Also [you shall observe] the Feast of Harvest (Weeks, Pentecost, or First Fruits), acknowledging the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. And [third] the Feast of Ingathering (Booths or Tabernacles) at the end of the year when you gather in [the fruit of] your labors from the field.


3. Deuteronomy 16:9 You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.


4. 1 Corinthians 15:20 it says, "now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." So to look back at the shadow in light of the fulfillment, the field of grain is "those who sleep." Christ, as the firstfruits from that field, rose from the dead on the day of the wave sheaf offering. The beginning of the harvest is thus tied to that particular day of the year.


5. 2 Chronicles 8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.