In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

¹ [[Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

The first came out reddish ¹  all over, ²  like a hairy ³  garment, so they named him Esau. ⁴ 

They said, “My lord, we did indeed come down ¹  the first time ²  to buy food.

On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work. ¹ 

Balak again sent princes, ¹  more numerous and more distinguished than the first. ² 

“‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord’s Passover.

You have been rebelling against him ¹  from the very first day I knew you!

the twenty-first to Jakin, the twenty-second to Gamul,

the twenty-first to Hothir and his sons and relatives – twelve in all,

Asa passed away ¹  in the forty-first year of his reign.

¹  The exiles ²  observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

The first daughter he named Jemimah, ¹  the second Keziah, ²  and the third Keren-Happuch. ³ 

Honor ¹  the Lord from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops; ² 

Now Daniel lived on until the first ¹  year of Cyrus the king.

Certainly the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

Harnessed to the first chariot were red horses, to the second black horses,

Another ¹  of the ²  disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”