24 occurrences

'First' in the Bible

“If they will not believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe the witness of the last sign.

Verse ConceptsNot Believing PeopleNot Believing Signs

Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentSevenSeven DaysThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.

Verse ConceptsHolidayWork, And RestConvocationsThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7No Work On Feast DaysChristmas TreeGraduationcookingprepping

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

Verse ConceptsEvening

you shall devote to the Lord the first offspring of every womb, and the first offspring of every beast that you own; the males belong to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningWombConsecrationOpening The WombPeople Belong To God

But every first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeDislocatingRules About Killing Animalsredeemed

It came about, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that the Lord killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore, I sacrifice to the Lord the males, the first offspring of every womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

Verse ConceptsStubbornness, Consequences OfDeath Of The FirstbornGod KillingMale AnimalsBoth Men And Animals KilledHindering God's WorkGod Killed The PeoplesRegulating Sacrifices

A bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise you shall make them on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

Verse ConceptsClothBlue Cords

You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

Verse ConceptsFifties

They shall be double beneath, and together they shall be complete to its top to the first ring; thus it shall be with both of them: they shall form the two corners.

Verse ConceptsCornersDoubled OverBeing Single

You shall mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald;

Verse ConceptsEmeraldsPrecious StonesFour Other ThingsJewellery And God

“The first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from cattle and sheep.

Verse ConceptsLivestockClaimsChild sacrificePeople Belong To God

You shall redeem with a lamb the first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. None shall appear before Me empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsDonkeysLambsRansomRedemption, In Everyday LifeDislocatingEmpty HandedRules About Killing Animals

“You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodMilkEcologyYoung AnimalAnimal MothersFirst fruits

He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set; he did likewise on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second set.

Verse ConceptsBlue Cords

Moreover, he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the first set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second set.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesLoops

They were double beneath, and together they were complete to its top to the first ring; thus he did with both of them for the two corners.

Verse ConceptsDoubled Over

and a bulb was under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

And they mounted four rows of stones on it. The first row was a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

Verse ConceptsPrecious StonesFour Other ThingsJewellery And God

“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsMonthTent Of MeetingTypes Of ChristCalendarsThe Tabernacle

Now in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

Bible Theasaurus

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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