'First born' in the Bible

And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

And they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. And he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also, and go thou in, and lay with him, that we may preserve seed by our fath

And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab. The same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Uz his first born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau thy firstborn. I have done according as thou bade me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And Isaac his father said to him, Who are thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau.

And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of LORD, and LORD killed him.

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for, God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth. And the men marveled one with another.

And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with their father Jacob, Jacob and his sons: The firstborn of Jacob, Reuben.

And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands deliberately, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn, put thy right hand upon his head.

Reuben, thou are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.

He also smote all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast,

to him who smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his loving kindness [is] forever,

And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety. And I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.

They shall come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Will LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

and knew her not until she brought forth her son, the firstborn. And he called his name JESUS.

And she brought forth her son, the firstborn, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the feed trough, because there was no place for them in the inn.

Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers.

who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things.

And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

By faith he performed the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who was destroying the firstborn would not touch them.

to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood