Quotes About Firstborn

You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.

Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his fatherís strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.

Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Josephís firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.

These are their genealogies: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judahís firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.

These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,

The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

Benjamin was the father of Bela, his firstborn; Ashbel was the second born, Aharah the third,

A Levite named Mattithiah, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with baking the bread.

The descendants of Gershom: Shebuel was the first.

Hosah the Merarite also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),

Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, as well as the fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, of both man and beast.

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.