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first

Concordance for “first”

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First occurrence: Genesis 1:5

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Joshua 4:19
¶ And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joshua 4:19 · retained source text

¶ And the people came vp out of Iordan on the tenth day of the first moneth, and encamped in Gilgal, in the East border of Iericho.

Joshua 8:5
And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joshua 8:5 · retained source text

And I, and all the people that are with mee, will approch vnto the citie: and it shall come to passe when they come out against vs, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

Joshua 8:6
(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joshua 8:6 · retained source text

(For they will come out after vs) till we haue drawen them from the citie; for they will say, They flee before vs, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. pulled.

Joshua 21:10
Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Joshua 21:10 · retained source text

Which the children of Aaron being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Leui, had: (for theirs was the first lot.)

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Before anything else in time, proceeding, place, or progression.

volume 1, leaf 764, column 2 (main_dictionary)