For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!)

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the Lord’s temple. For eight more days they consecrated the Lord’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished.

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly in plain sight of all the Egyptians.

The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

That day David first gave to Asaph and his colleagues this song of thanks to the Lord:

The first to state his case seems right, until his opponent begins to cross-examine him.

I first decreed to Zion, ‘Look, here’s what will happen!’ I sent a herald to Jerusalem.

In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was beside the great river, the Tigris.

The disciples asked him, “Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

Then they asked him, “Why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

And very early on the first day of the week, at sunrise, they went to the tomb.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed.

So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

And these also must be tested first and then let them serve as deacons if they are found blameless.

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.