and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Gad! a troop assaulteth him, But he assaulteth last.

Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!'

'But thou dost surely kill him; thy hand is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last;

the hand of the witnesses is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

And king David sent unto Zadok and unto Abiathar the priests, saying, 'Speak ye unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye last to bring back the king unto his house? (and the word of all Israel hath come unto the king, unto his house;)

my brethren ye are, my bone and my flesh ye are, and why are ye last to bring back the king?

And these are the last words of David: -- 'The affirmation of David son of Jesse -- And the affirmation of the man raised up -- Concerning the Anointed of the God of Jacob, And the Sweetness of the Songs of Israel:

And Elijah saith unto her, 'Fear not, go, do according to thy word, only make for me thence a little cake, in the first place, and thou hast brought out to me; and for thee and for thy son make -- last;

for by the last words of David they took the number of the sons of Levi from a son of twenty years and upward,

And the matters of David the king, the first and the last, lo, they are written beside the matters of Samuel the seer, and beside the matters of Nathan the prophet, and beside the matters of Gad the seer,

And the rest of the matters of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written beside the matters of Nathan the prophet, and beside the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and with the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

And the matters of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written among the matters of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer, concerning genealogy? And the wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam are all the days;

And lo, the matters of Asa, the first and the last, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

And the rest of the matters of Jehoshaphat, the first and the last, lo, they are written among the matters of Jehu son of Hanani, who hath been mentioned on the book of the kings of Israel.

and the rest of the matters of Amaziah, the first and the last, lo, are they not written on the books of the kings of Judah and Israel?

And the rest of the matters of Uzziah, the first and the last, hath Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet written;

And the rest of his matters, and all his ways, the first and the last, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

even his matters, the first and the last, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

And he readeth in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day till the last day, and they make a feast seven days, and on the eighth day a restraint, according to the ordinance.

That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

There is not a remembrance of former generations; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.

Who hath wrought and done, Calling the generations from the first? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last I am He.

Thus said Jehovah, king of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: 'I am the first, and I the last, And besides Me there is no God.

Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I am He, I am first, and I am last;

A scattered sheep is Israel, lions have driven away, At first, devour him did the king of Asshur, And now, at last, broken his bone Hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

And at last come up before me hath Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar -- according to the name of my god -- and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and the dream before him I have told:

And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain ram is standing before the stream, and it hath two horns, and the two horns are high; and the one is higher than the other, and the high one is coming up last.

Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

verily I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till that thou mayest pay the last farthing.

then doth it go, and take with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having gone in they dwell there, and the last of that man doth become worse than the first; so shall it be also to this evil generation.'

and many first shall be last, and last first.

And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.

that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat.

take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee;

So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

And he answering said, 'I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.

for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.

'And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son;

and last of all died also the woman;

and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,

command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

and he was calling upon him much, saying -- 'My little daughter is at the last extremity -- that having come, thou mayest lay on her thy hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, 'If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

and many first shall be last, and the last first.'

Having yet therefore one son -- his beloved -- he sent also him unto them last, saying -- They will reverence my son;

and the seven took her, and left no seed, last of all died also the woman;

then doth it go, and take to it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there, and the last of that man becometh worst than the first.'

I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till even the last mite thou mayest give back.'

and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.'

and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.

'But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

and last of all died also the woman:

'And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;

and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;

And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 'If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;

and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

Martha saith to him, 'I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'

'He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;

And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me,

the last enemy is done away -- death;

so also it hath been written, 'The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;

your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

Little youths, it is the last hour; and even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come, even now antichrists have become many -- whence we know that it is the last hour;

that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, 'What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'

And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, 'Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

'And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;

I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last are more than the first.

And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and wonderful, seven messengers having the seven last plagues, because in these was completed the wrath of God,

And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, 'Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb -- the wife,'

I am the Alpha and the Omega -- the Beginning and End -- the First and the Last.