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De controversia Paschali (Author: Cummianus Hibernus)

paragraph 3

And I found that firstly one ought to look in Exodus concerning the First Month according to the Hebrews. For it is written: This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year,’’

Exod. 12:2

and in the following verses: On the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to his family and his household, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month ’’

Exod. 13:3 and 6

(that is of the First Month) and the whole assembly of the sons of Israel shall sacrifice their lambs in the evening.’’

Exod. 12:6

And I found that the Apostle spoke thus concerning the sacrifice of Christ, not concerning the Resurrection, saying: For Christ, our Paschal lamb, has been sacrificed.’’

1 Cor. 5:7 (V)

Again in Exodus: You shall observe this day throughout your generations as an ordinance forever, in the First Month, on the fourteenth day of the month.’’

Exod. 12:17

Also in Leviticus: If anyone is clean and is not on a journey, yet refrains from keeping the passover, that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not offer the Lord's offering at its appointed time’’

Num. 9:13 (V)

(that is in the First Month). I feared this and I sought diligently what the Hebrews, the Greeks, the Latins, and the Egyptians observed and thought about this time, which I shall demonstrate below.