God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,

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.

Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord.

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

And the firstborn 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 firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

The next day, the firstborn 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 from our father.”

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

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.

And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here am I, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

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

These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.

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

His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, 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 firstborn.

He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’

The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.