19 occurrences

'First' in the Bible

The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai, on the first day of the second month of the second year after Israel’s departure from the land of Egypt:

Verse ConceptsTent Of MeetingTentsMonth 2

and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of those 20 years old or more,

Verse ConceptsCongregationAssembling IsraelMonth 2Family First

The total number in their military divisions who belong to Judah’s encampment is 186,400; they will move out first.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstOne Hundred Thousand And MoreFirst To Fight

The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah.

For they have been exclusively assigned to Me from the Israelites. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, every Israelite firstborn.

Verse ConceptsPeople Belong To God

In the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, the Lord told Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

Verse ConceptsMonth

and they observed it in the first month on the fourteenth day at twilight in the Wilderness of Sinai. The Israelites did everything as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsTwilight

They set out for the first time according to the Lord’s command through Moses.

Verse ConceptsFirst Actions

The military divisions of the camp of Judah with their banner set out first, and Nahshon son of Amminadab was over Judah’s divisions.

Verse ConceptsFlagsOrder Of MarchFirst To ActPeople Of Judah

You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor.

Verse ConceptsGrindingThreshing Floor

Throughout your generations, you are to give the Lord a contribution from the first batch of your dough.

Verse ConceptsGrinding

The entire Israelite community entered the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and they settled in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfAaron, Sins OfWilderness Of ZinMonth 1

Now I am going back to my people, but first, let me warn you what these people will do to your people in the future.”

Verse ConceptsNationalismRevelation Of The FutureReturning to their land

Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem:Amalek was first among the nations,but his future is destruction.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstPeople BeginningWise Proverbs

“The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For GodYearsThe Number FourteenRegulations For Passover

On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

Verse ConceptsConvocationsNo Work On Feast Days

“You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of joyful shouting for you.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of TrumpetsHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodMonthNew Year, TheAutumnTrumpetYearsConvocationsMonth 7Trumpets For CelebrationNo Work On Feast DaysMonths

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month. On the day after the Passover the Israelites went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians.

Verse ConceptsBoldness, To PeopleSpectators

At the Lord’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites went out of the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTMonthMonth 5

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Commencement (24 instances)
Foremost (17 instances)
Initiative (18 instances)
Leading (178 instances)
Maiden (40 instances)
Offset (3 instances)
Outset (2 instances)
Start (93 instances)

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