The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Hav′ilah, where there is gold;

The First Sin and Its Punishment

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

And 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 were seen.

In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard;

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

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

And the first-born 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 earth.

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

And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.”

The first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Uz the first-born, Buz his brother, Kemu′el the father of Aram,

These are the names of the sons of Ish′mael, named in the order of their birth: Neba′ioth, the first-born of Ish′mael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

The first came forth red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they called his name Esau.

He called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Laban said, “It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the first-born.

Clans and Kings of Edom

These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of El′iphaz the first-born of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

And the thin and gaunt cows ate up the first seven fat cows,

Joseph called the name of the first-born Manas′seh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”

And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph’s house, and they said, “It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us, to make slaves of us and seize our asses.”

and said, “Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food;

And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men looked at one another in amazement.

And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon the head of E′phraim, who was the younger, and his left hand upon the head of Manas′seh, crossing his hands, for Manas′seh was the first-born.

And Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this one is the first-born; put your right hand upon his head.”

Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the first fruits of my strength, pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power.