'Beginning' in the Bible

And he answering said to them, 'Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them,

He saith to them -- 'Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

and all these are the beginning of sorrows;

for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.