God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering,

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.

Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;

to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the Lord.

Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth.

So 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 or when she arose.

It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.”

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

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

And these were the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau.

Isaac and Abimelech

There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

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

And his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” So he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

And Laban said, “It must not be done so in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these in front of you?’

the sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

The Chiefs of Edom

These were the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau, were Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz,

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

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord killed him.

And so it was, when she was giving birth, that the one put out his hand; and the midwife took a scarlet thread and bound it on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

And the gaunt and ugly cows ate up the first seven, the fat cows.