'First' in the Bible

The first [river] is named Pishon; it flows around the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

Now in the six hundred and first year [of Noah’s life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and the surface of the ground was drying.

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.

where he had first built an altar; and there Abram called on the name of the Lord [in prayer].

The first came out reddish all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau (hairy).

He named that place Bethel (the house of God); the previous name of that city was Luz (Almond Tree).

So she conceived and gave birth to a son; and she said, “God has taken away my disgrace and humiliation.”

Then he commanded the one in front, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks to whom you belong, and where you are going, and whose are the animals in front of you?

and the young man did not hesitate to do the [required] thing, for he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more respected and honored than all [others] in the household of his father.

And when she was in labor, one [baby] put out his hand, and the midwife took his hand and tied a scarlet thread on it, saying, “This one was born first.”

But he pulled back his hand, and his brother was born first. And she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself [to be the firstborn]!” So he was named Perez (breach, break forth).

Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when Joseph shaved himself and changed his clothes [making himself presentable], he came to Pharaoh.

And the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and [expecting the worst] they said, “It is because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time [we came] that we are being brought in, so that he may find a reason to accuse us and assail us, and take us as slaves, and seize our donkeys.”

and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down here the first time to buy food;