God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold,

The First Sin and Its Punishment

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,

The waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

In the six hundred first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and saw that the face of the ground was drying.

Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to become a mighty warrior.

Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.

to the place where he had made an altar at the first, and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven,

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

So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.

On the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.”

The firstborn bore a son and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day.

Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. And the two of them walked on together.

Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle, so they named him Esau.

Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”

Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, so that you may bless me.”