Genesis 48:18

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And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord!

Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that you desired. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.

And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which was with her in the house, and put it upon Jacob her younger son:

And Laban said, it must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the first-born.

And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birth-right, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men wondered one at another.

Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellence of dignity, and the excellence of power: