'Beginning' in the Bible

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.