<t /><p class="bodytext">In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month,<n id="1" /> some of the elders<n id="2" /> of Israel came to seek<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, and they sat down in front of me.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to me:

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month,<n id="1" /> a refugee came to me from Jerusalem<n id="2" /> saying, &#8220;The city has been defeated!&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you must take an unblemished young bull and purify the sanctuary.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for seven days bread made without yeast will be eaten.

In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast,<n id="1" /> he will make the same provisions for the sin offering, burnt offering, and grain offering, and for the olive oil, for the seven days.p>

<p class="bodytext">On the twenty-fourth day of the first month<n id="1" /> I was beside the great river, the Tigris.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In King Darius&#8217; fourth year, on the fourth day of <i>Kislevi>, the ninth month,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to Zechariah.

<p class="bodytext">In the six hundredth year of Noah&#8217;s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month &#8211; on that day all the fountains of the great deep<n id="1" /> burst open and the floodgates of the heavens<n id="2" /> were opened.

<p class="bodytext">In Noah&#8217;s six hundred and first year,<n id="1" /> in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that<n id="2" /> the surface of the ground was dry.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="2" /> they journeyed from Elim, the entire company<n id="3" /> of Israelites came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus<n id="4" /> from the land of Egypt.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is to be a perpetual statute for you.<n id="1" /> In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you must humble yourselves<n id="2" /> and do no work of any kind,<n id="3" /> both the native citizen and the foreigner who resides<n id="4" /> in your midst,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On<n id="1" /> the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the <sc>Lordsc> for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.

and they assembled<n id="1" /> the entire community together on the first day of the second month.<n id="2" /> Then the people recorded their ancestry<n id="3" /> by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed<n id="4" /> by name individually,

And they observed the Passover<n id="1" /> on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the <sc>Lordsc> for seven days.

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day<n id="1" /> after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly<n id="2" /> in plain sight<n id="3" /> of all the Egyptians.

Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor at the command<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>, and he died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt on the first day of the fifth month.

However, it was not until<n id="1" /> the first day of the eleventh month<n id="2" /> of the fortieth year<n id="3" /> that Moses addressed the Israelites just as<n id="4" /> the <sc>Lordsc> had instructed him to do.

So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside<n id="1" /> it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah&#8217;s reign.<n id="2" />