'First born' in the Bible

and knew her not till she had brought forth her first-born son. And he called his name Jesus.

and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swathing-clothes, and laid him in the stable, because there was no place for them in the inn.

For those whom he foreknew, he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren:

who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature;

and he is the head of the body, the church: and he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be preeminent;

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: even his first-born, did he that had received the promises, offer up,

of which first-born it was said: In Isaac shall your posterity be called:

By faith he kept the passover, and the affusion of blood, that he who destroyed the first-born might not touch them.

to the general assembly and church of the first-born, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loves us, and that has washed us from our sins in his own blood,