Lexicon :: Strong's H7223 - ri'šôn

In the six hundred first year,[fn] in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of the LORD there.

The first one came out red-looking,[fn] covered with hair[fn] like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

and named the place Bethel,[fn] though previously the city was named Luz.

And he told the first one, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you? ’

He put the slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread around it, announcing, “This one came out first.”

“In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand the way you used to when you were his cupbearer.

“Then the thin, sickly cows ate the first seven well-fed cows.

“If they will not believe you and will not respond to the evidence of the first sign, they may believe the evidence of the second sign.

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

“You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel.

“You are to eat unleavened bread in the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day.

The LORD said to Moses, “Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. He got up early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hand, he climbed Mount Sinai, just as the LORD had commanded him.

“You are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.[fn]

The tabernacle was set up in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month.[fn]

“Then he will bring the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

“He is to bring them to the priest, who will first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the back of the neck without severing it.

Aaron presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and made a sin offering with it as he did before.

“The Passover to the LORD comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.

“On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

“There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work.

“You are to celebrate the LORD’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day.

“For their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am the LORD.”

“The total number in their military divisions who belong to Judah’s encampment is 186,400; they will move out first.

“He is to rededicate his time of consecration to the LORD and to bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But do not count the initial period of consecration because it became defiled.

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

In the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, the LORD told Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai,

and they observed it in the first month on the fourteenth day at twilight in the Wilderness of Sinai. The Israelites did everything as the LORD had commanded Moses.

They set out for the first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.

The entire Israelite community entered the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and they[fn] settled in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.

Heshbon was the city of King Sihon of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken control of all his land as far as the Arnon.

“The Passover to the LORD comes in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month.

“On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month. On the day after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly[fn] in the sight of all the Egyptians.

“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created mankind[fn] on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

“I fell down like the first time in the presence of the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the LORD’s sight and angering him.

“The LORD said to me at that time, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to me on the mountain and make a wooden ark.

“I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time. The LORD also listened to me on this occasion; he agreed not to annihilate you.

“Instead, you must kill him. Your hand is to be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

“No yeast is to be found anywhere in your territory for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day is to remain until morning.

“The witnesses’ hands are to be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from you.