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First occurrence: Genesis 1:5

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Judges 1:1
NOW after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Judges 1:1 · retained source text

¶ Now after the death of Ioshua, it came to passe, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shal goe vp for vs against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

Judges 18:29
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Judges 18:29 · retained source text

And they called the name of the city, Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was borne vnto Israel: howbeit the name of the citie was Laish at the first.

1611 marginal noteIosh. 19.47.

Judges 20:18
¶ And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Judges 20:18 · retained source text

¶ And the children of Israel arose, and went vp to the house of God, and asked counsell of God, and saide, Which of vs shall goe vp first to the battell against the children of Beniamin? And the LORD said, Iudah shall goe vp first.

Judges 20:22
And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Judges 20:22 · retained source text

And the people the men of Israel incouraged themselues, & set their battel againe in aray, in the place where they put themselues in aray the first day.

Judges 20:32
And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Judges 20:32 · retained source text

And the children of Beniamin said, They are smitten downe before vs, as at the first: But the children of Israel said, Let vs flee, and draw them from the citie, vnto the high wayes.

Judges 20:39
And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Judges 20:39 · retained source text

And when the men of Israel retired in the battell, Beniamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirtie persons; for they saide, Surely they are smitten downe before vs, as in the first battell.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to smite the wounded.

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

volume 1, leaf 764, column 2 (main_dictionary)