'Begin' in the Bible
This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach."
You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.
The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
Then the Lord said to Moses, "You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.