“I am the servant of Abraham,” he began.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly. ¹ 

(12:1) ¹  Jehoash ²  was seven years old when he began to reign.

Noah, a man of the soil, ¹  began to plant a vineyard. ² 

Cush was the father of ¹  Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words: ¹ 

The Lord’s spirit began to control him ¹  in Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

His hair ¹  began to grow back after it had been shaved off.

David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned for forty years.

Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel.

When humankind ¹  began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born ²  to them, ³ 

¹ When ²  Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality ³  with the daughters of Moab.

Saul was [thirty] ¹  years old when he began to reign; he ruled over Israel for [forty] ²  years.

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. ¹  Hazael attacked their eastern border. ² 

He began building on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign. ¹ 

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps ¹  and finished in the seventh month.

Then the local people ¹  began to discourage ²  the people of Judah and to dishearten them from building.

So I began to despair ¹  about all the fruit of ²  my labor ³  for which I worked so hard ⁴  on earth. ⁵ 

The Lord ¹  began to speak to him ²  in the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon ruled over Judah.