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This specific month is to be the beginning the biblical new year (Exod 12:2). The state of the barley simply determines which month is to be the first month of the biblical year. The month of the Abib is not so much the name of a month as it is a description of the month. Below are listed the other three places in the Scriptures where this

Hebrew Calendar and Abib. The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar, which follows the moon's cycle and is adjusted for the solar cycle. The months are determined by the sighting of a new moon, and the year is divided into 12 months of 29 or 30 days. Abib is designated as the first month of the calendar.

The Ethiopian months begin on the same days as those of the Coptic calendar, but their names are in Ge'ez. A sixth epagomenal day is added every four years, without exception, on 29 August of the Julian calendar, six months before the corresponding Julian leap day. Thus, the first day of the Ethiopian calendar year, 1 Mäskäräm, for years