'First' in the Bible

At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.

And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.

And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their generations: Ishmael's first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau.

And Jacob said, First of all give me your birthright.

And Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he gave him his oath, handing over his birthright to Jacob.

Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.

And he gave orders to the first, saying, When my brother Esau comes to you and says, Whose servant are you, and where are you going, and whose are these herds?

Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

These were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar.

Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.

And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.

But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez.

Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.

Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use.

And said, O my lord, we only came down the first time to get food;

Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:

But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.