Commentary for Shabbat 174:3

אמרי לך רבנן אייר דההיא שתא עבורי עברוה תא שמע דלא עברוה ניסן שבו יצאו ישראל ממצרים בארבעה עשר שחטו פסחיהם בחמשה עשר יצאו ולערב לקו בכורות לערב ס"ד אלא אימא מבערב לקו בכורות ואותו היום חמישי בשבת היה השלים ניסן ואירע אייר להיות בשבת

and the first of Siwan was on a Sunday,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Iyar containing twenty-nine days. ');">⁹</span> which is a difficulty according to the Rabbis? — The Rabbis answer you: Iyar in that year was indeed made full.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before the calendar was fixed by calculation months might be made full (thirty days) or defective (twenty-nine days) according to the exigencies of the moment. ');">¹⁰</span> Come and hear that they did not make it full! As to the Nisan in which the Israelites departed from Egypt, on the fourteenth they killed 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! Rather, say, The first-borns having been smitten since the [previous] evening, and that day was a Thursday. Nisan was a full month, so that [the first of] Iyar fell on the Sabbath. Iyar was defective, so that [the first of] Siwan fell on a Sunday. This is a difficulty according to the Rabbis? — That agrees with R. Jose. R. Papa observed, Come and hear: And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin&nbsp;… on the fifteenth day of the second month.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XVI, 1. ');">¹¹</span>

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