Commentary for Shabbat 174:2

ת"ש ניסן שבו יצאו ישראל ממצרים בארבעה עשר שחטו פסחיהם ובחמשה עשר יצאו ולערב לקו בכורות לערב ס"ד אלא מבערב לקו בכורות ואותו היום חמישי בשבת היה מדחמיסר בניסן חמשה בשבת ריש ירחא דאייר שבתא וריש ירחא דסיון חד בשבת קשיא לרבנן

One Master holds: They were commanded concerning the Sabbath [in general], but not concerning tehumin.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tehum pl. tehumin, q.v. Glos. ');">⁵</span> Whilst the other Master holds: They were commanded concerning tehumin too.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Raba maintains that it was the sixth day from their encamping only, whilst they departed from Rephidim on the previous day, which was the Sabbath, since the law of tehumin was as yet non-existent. But R. Aha b. Jacob holds that they must have set out from Rephidim on Sunday too, not on the Sabbath, this law already being in existence. ');">⁶</span> Come and hear: As to the Nisan in which the Israelites departed from Egypt, on the fourteenth day they slaughtered their Passover sacrifices, on the fifteenth they went forth, and in the evening the first-borns were smitten. 'In the evening': can you think so!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For this implies that the death of the first-borns took place after their departure. ');">⁷</span> Rather say, The first-borns having been smitten the [previous] evening, and that day was a Thursday. Now, since the fifteenth of Nisan was on a Thursday, the first of Iyar was on the Sabbath,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nisan containing thirty days. ');">⁸</span>

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