Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on ¹  them just as he did ²  on us at the beginning. ³ 

And, “You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, ¹  and the heavens are the works of your hands.

You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them ¹  from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

On that day I will carry out ¹  against Eli everything that I spoke about his house – from start to finish!

¹ At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus ²  they filed an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. ³ 

Your beginning ¹  will seem so small, since your future will flourish. ² 

The Lord created ¹  me as the beginning ²  of his works, ³  before his deeds of long ago.

At the beginning his words ¹  are foolish and at the end ²  his talk ³  is wicked madness, ⁴ 

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah ²  at the beginning of the reign ³  of Josiah’s son, King Jehoiakim of Judah.

For then there will be great suffering ¹  unlike anything that has happened ²  from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

For ¹  this is the gospel ²  message ³  that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another, ⁴ 

“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year. ¹ 

Starting a quarrel ¹  is like letting out water; ²  stop it before strife breaks out! ³ 

Early in the reign ¹  of King Zedekiah of Judah, the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam. ² 

like the accounts ¹  passed on ²  to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word ³  from the beginning. ⁴ 

Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ ¹ 

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ¹  ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ ² 

The Lord told Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel ¹  so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

So Naomi returned, accompanied by her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who came back with her from the region of Moab. ¹  (Now they ²  arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.) ³ 

But if ¹  that ²  slave should say to himself, ³  ‘My master is delayed ⁴  in returning,’ and he begins to beat ⁵  the other ⁶  slaves, both men and women, ⁷  and to eat, drink, and get drunk,