Exodus12:2
Translation
This month shall be your chief
Go to footnote numberof months, it will be to you the first
Go to footnote numbermonth of the year.
Paraphrase
From now on this month shall rule over and be the leader of all the other months; because of its importance it will be first in your order of months.
Footnotes
1
The word used here means “head, chief, leader, top, highest, beginning or first.” It denoted importance, priority and authority.
2
This word is derived from the one above, but it was more often used of something that came first in time or order.