'Elder' in the Bible

Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is aging, and there is not a man on earth [available] to be intimate with us in the customary way [so that we may have children].

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

And it cometh to pass that Isaac is aged, and his eyes are too dim for seeing, and he calleth Esau his elder son, and saith unto him, 'My son;' and he saith unto him, 'Here am I.'

Then Rebekah took some garments that belonged to her elder son Esau the best ones available and put them on her younger son Jacob.

And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

But Laban only said, “It is not the tradition here to give the younger [daughter in marriage] before the older.