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First occurrence: Genesis 1:5

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Ezra 6:19
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezra 6:19 · retained source text

And the children of the captiuitie kept the Passeouer, vpon the fourteenth day of the first moneth:

Ezra 7:9
For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
3 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezra 7:9 · retained source text

For vpon the first day of the first moneth, began he to go vp frō Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth moneth, came he to Ierusalem, according to the good hand of his God vpon him.

1611 marginal noteHe was the foundation of the going vp.

Ezra 8:31
¶ Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezra 8:31 · retained source text

¶ Then wee departed from the riuer of Ahaua, on the twelfth day of the first moneth, to goe vnto Ierusalem; and the hand of our God was vpon vs, and hee deliuered vs from the hand of the enemie, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

Ezra 10:16
And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezra 10:16 · retained source text

And the children of the captiuitie did so: and Ezra the Priest, with certaine chiefe of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sate downe in the first day of the tenth moneth to examine the matter.

Ezra 10:17
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezra 10:17 · retained source text

And they made an ende, with all the men that had taken strange wiues, by the first day of the first moneth.

Nehemiah 7:5
¶ And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Nehemiah 7:5 · retained source text

¶ And my God put into mine heart, to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, & the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogie. And I found a register of the genealogie of them which came vp at the first, and found written therein;

Nehemiah 8:2
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Nehemiah 8:2 · retained source text

And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the Congregation, both of men and women, and all that could heare with vnderstanding, vpon the first day of the seuenth moneth.

1611 marginal noteHeb. that vnderstood in hearing.

Nehemiah 8:18
Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Nehemiah 8:18 · retained source text

Also day by day from the first day vnto the last day, he read in the booke of the Law of God: and they kept the feast seuen dayes, and on the eight day was a solemne assembly according vnto the maner.

1611 marginal noteHeb. are straint.

Esther 1:14
And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Esther 1:14 · retained source text

And the next vnto him, was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshis, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seuen Princes of Persia, and Media, which saw the Kings face, and which sate the first in the kingdome.)

1611 marginal noteEzra. 7.14.

Esther 3:7
¶ In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Esther 3:7 · retained source text

¶ In the first moneth (that is, the moneth Nisan) in the twelfth yeere of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman, from day to day, and from moneth to moneth, to the twelfth moneth, that is the moneth Adar.

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

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