13 occurrences

'First' in the Bible

However, it was not until the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year that Moses addressed the Israelites just as the Lord had instructed him to do.

Verse ConceptsMonthMonth 11

You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!

Verse ConceptsRebellion against God

At that same time the Lord said to me, "Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ConstructionGoing Up MountainsTwo Stone Tablets

I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark."

So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ConstructionToolsTwo Stone Tablets

As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.

Verse ConceptsMore Than One MonthGod Unwilling

Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

Verse ConceptsApproval To KillFirst To ActDeath Of A Family Member

There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadSeven DaysOvernight

The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsBeing Firstevil, warnings againstBanishmentPurity, Moral And SpiritualWitnesses, LegalFirst To Act

her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Perverse SexualitySecond MarriageDefilementHusband And WifeWifeA Good Husbandspousemarraige

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted OutSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

you must take the first of all the ground's produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.

Verse ConceptsChoicesBaskets, Uses OfWorship, Places OfA Place For God's NameFirst fruits

So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground's produce that you, Lord, have given me." Then you must set it down before the Lord your God and worship before him.

Verse ConceptsBowingFirst fruits

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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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