He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.

The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.

“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.

“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month, in the second year.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the Lord.

On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work.

On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work.

The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah.

The standard of the camp of the Judahites set out first according to their companies, and over his company was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

They were assigned to the Kohathite clans of the Levites who were descendants of Aaron, for the first lot belonged to them.

She said, “In the past they would always say, ‘Let them inquire in Abel,’ and that is how they settled things.

The first to resettle on their property and in their cities were some Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

The first time you did not carry it; that is why the Lord God attacked us, because we did not ask him about the proper way to carry it.”

Benaiah son of Jehoiada supervised the Kerethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were the king’s leading officials.

The first lot went to Asaph’s son Joseph and his relatives and sons – twelve in all, the second to Gedaliah and his relatives and sons – twelve in all,

He was a descendant of Perez; he was in charge of all the army officers for the first month.

The events of Asa’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel.