'Earlier' in the Bible

Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD earlier.

Later on, a famine swept through the land. This famine was different from the previous famine that had occurred earlier, during Abraham's lifetime. So Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Jacob also noticed that the way Laban had been looking at him wasn't as nice as it had been just two days earlier.