Concordance

“First” in the Bible

363 verses contain “first” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 1:5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Genesis 2:11 The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 8:5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
Genesis 8:13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that…
Genesis 25:25 The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
Genesis 25:31 “First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
Genesis 25:33 “Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
Genesis 38:28 And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.
Genesis 38:29 But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
Genesis 41:20 Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
Genesis 43:18 …ere because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our…
Genesis 43:20 “Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
Exodus 4:8 And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.
Exodus 12:2 “This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
Exodus 12:15 For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through…
Exodus 12:16 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you…
Exodus 12:18 In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
Exodus 21:10 If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
Exodus 25:33 …ere are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that…
Exodus 25:35 For the six branches that extend from the lampstand, a bud must be under the first pair of branches, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair.
Exodus 26:4 Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.
Exodus 26:10 Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
Exodus 28:17 And mount on it a setting of gemstones, four rows of stones: In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
Exodus 29:40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
Exodus 34:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
Exodus 34:19 The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.
Exodus 36:11 He made loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and also on the end curtain in the second set.
Exodus 36:17 He made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
Exodus 37:19 There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that…
Exodus 37:21 A bud was under the first pair of branches that extended from the lampstand, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair.
Exodus 39:10 And they mounted on it four rows of gemstones: The first row had a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
Exodus 40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus 40:17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
Leviticus 4:21 Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
Leviticus 5:8 He is to bring them to the priest, who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the front of its neck without severing it;
Leviticus 9:15 Aaron then presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one.
Leviticus 15:11 If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands with water, the one who was touched must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will…
Leviticus 23:5 The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Leviticus 23:7 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
Leviticus 23:24 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.
Leviticus 23:35 On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.
Leviticus 23:39 …he LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth…
Leviticus 23:40 On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to…
Numbers 1:1 On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the…
Numbers 1:18 and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those…
Numbers 2:9 The total number of men in the divisions of the camp of Judah is 186,400; they shall set out first.
Numbers 7:12 On the first day Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah drew near with his offering.
Numbers 8:16 …rael. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of…
Numbers 9:1 In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
Numbers 9:5 and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 10:13 They set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.
Numbers 10:14 First, the divisions of the camp of Judah set out under their standard, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.
Numbers 13:20 … some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe…
Numbers 15:20 From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.
Numbers 15:21 Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.
Numbers 20:1 In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
Numbers 22:15 Then Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first messengers.
Numbers 24:20 Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
Numbers 28:16 The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
Numbers 28:18 On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Numbers 29:1 “On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.
Numbers 33:3 On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
Numbers 33:38 …d, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of…
Deuteronomy 1:3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
Deuteronomy 9:18 …the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was…
Deuteronomy 10:2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”
Deuteronomy 10:10 I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 13:9 Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
Deuteronomy 16:4 No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.
Deuteronomy 16:9 You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
Deuteronomy 17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 18:4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
Deuteronomy 24:4 then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that…
Deuteronomy 25:6 The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
Joshua 4:19 On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
Joshua 8:5 Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.
Joshua 18:11 The first lot came up for the clans of the tribe of Benjamin. Their allotted territory lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph:
Joshua 21:4 The first lot came out for the Kohathite clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received thirteen cities by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon,…
Joshua 21:10 to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them:
Judges 1:1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”
Judges 20:18 The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.
Judges 20:22 But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.
Judges 20:39 …f Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first…
1 Samuel 2:16 And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you…
1 Samuel 14:14 In that first assault, Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men over half an acre of land.
1 Samuel 14:35 Then Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first time he had built an altar to the LORD.
1 Samuel 17:30 Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.
1 Samuel 22:15 Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew…
2 Samuel 17:9 … a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow…
2 Samuel 18:25 So he called out and told the king. “If he is alone,” the king replied, “he bears good news.” As the first runner drew near,
2 Samuel 18:27 The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”
2 Samuel 19:20 For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
2 Samuel 19:43 …David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of…
2 Samuel 21:9 … seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley…
1 Kings 1:51 …n hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon first swear to me not to put his servant to the…
1 Kings 3:22 …living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the…
1 Kings 3:27 Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”
1 Kings 6:24 One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.
1 Kings 6:27 … temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle…
1 Kings 16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.
1 Kings 16:32 First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.
1 Kings 17:13 …raid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for…
1 Kings 18:25 … so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the…
1 Kings 20:9 …y lord the king, ‘All that you demanded of your servant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” So the messengers departed and relayed the message to…
1 Kings 20:17 And the young officers of the district governors marched out first. Now Ben-hadad had sent out scouts, who reported to him, “Men are marching out of Samaria.”
1 Kings 22:5 But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the LORD.”
2 Kings 1:14 Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”
2 Kings 4:42 Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
2 Kings 17:25 Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
1 Chronicles 6:54 Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:
1 Chronicles 9:2 Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
1 Chronicles 11:6 Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.
1 Chronicles 12:15 These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and…
1 Chronicles 15:13 It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”
1 Chronicles 16:7 On that day David first committed to Asaph and his brothers this song of thanksgiving to the LORD:
1 Chronicles 23:8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the first, Zetham, and Joel—three in all.
1 Chronicles 23:11 Jahath was the first and Zizah was the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, so they were counted as one family and received a single assignment.
1 Chronicles 23:16 The descendants of Gershom: Shebuel was the first.
1 Chronicles 23:17 The descendants of Eliezer: Rehabiah was the first. Eliezer did not have any other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.
1 Chronicles 23:18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith was the first.
1 Chronicles 23:19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah was the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles 23:20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah was the first and Isshiah the second.
1 Chronicles 24:7 The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
1 Chronicles 24:17 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
1 Chronicles 24:21 As for Rehabiah, from his sons: The first was Isshiah.
1 Chronicles 24:23 From the sons of Hebron: Jeriah was the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles 25:9 The first lot, which was for Asaph, fell to Joseph, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all; the second to Gedaliah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
1 Chronicles 25:28 the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
1 Chronicles 26:10 Hosah the Merarite also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),
1 Chronicles 27:2 Jashobeam son of Zabdiel was in charge of the first division, which was assigned the first month. There were 24,000 men in his division.
1 Chronicles 27:3 He was a descendant of Perez and chief of all the army commanders for the first month.
1 Chronicles 29:29 Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are indeed written in the Chronicles of Samuel the Seer, the Chronicles of Nathan the Prophet, and the Chronicles of Gad…
2 Chronicles 3:11 …wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long…
2 Chronicles 3:12 …other wing measured five cubits and touched the wing of the first…
2 Chronicles 12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer concerning the genealogies? There was war…
2 Chronicles 16:13 So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.
2 Chronicles 18:4 But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 29:3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 29:17 They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they…
2 Chronicles 35:1 Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles 36:22 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a…
Ezra 1:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a…
Ezra 3:6 On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.
Ezra 3:12 …e older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted…
Ezra 5:13 In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
Ezra 6:3 In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its…
Ezra 6:19 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.
Ezra 7:9 He had begun the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his…
Ezra 8:31 On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies…
Ezra 10:16 …hem identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the…

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