God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.
to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord.
The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’
And when she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”
And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,
And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, “It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys.”
and said, “Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food.
“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.
“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
“Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”
you shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the Lord's.
For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’
And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
they shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring. Thus shall it be with both of them; they shall form the two corners.
You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;
And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.
He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.
And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners.
And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;
“On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.
And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.
He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall wring its head from its neck but shall not sever it completely,
Then he presented the people's offering and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people and killed it and offered it as a sin offering, like the first one.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord's Passover.
On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.
On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,
All those listed of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 186,400. They shall set out first on the march.
He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.
They set out for the first time at the command of the Lord by Moses.
The standard of the camp of the people of Judah set out first by their companies, and over their company was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
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