'Older' in the Bible
And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:
And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.
And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.
Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older.
And Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands on purpose, for Manasseh was the older.
And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.