¹  The exiles ²  observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

He entered Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.

You are observing religious ¹  days and months and seasons and years.

¹ On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony. ² 

This took place on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of King Darius’ second year. ¹ 

Observe the month Abib ¹  and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month ²  he ³  brought you out of Egypt by night.

Then Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus at his royal residence in the tenth ¹  month (that is, the month of Tebeth) in the seventh ²  year of his reign.

This was to take place on a certain day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus – namely, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar).

On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the Lord’s temple. ¹  For eight more days they consecrated the Lord’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished.

In the eleventh year, in the month Bul ¹  (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build. ² 

In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, ¹  some of the elders ²  of Israel came to seek ³  the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.

In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

to have them observe the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of the month of Adar each year

In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

At the end of the twelve months that were required for the women, ¹  when the turn of each young woman arrived to go to King Ahasuerus – for in this way they had to fulfill their time of cosmetic treatment: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfume and various ointments used by women –

In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you must take an unblemished young bull and purify the sanctuary.

“‘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.