First Born, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Genesis 25:31 OT

  Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

• Genesis 25:33 OT

  Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Hebrews 12:16 NT

  lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

• Hebrews 12:17 NT

  For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

• Genesis 4:5 OT

  but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

• Genesis 10:21 OT

  Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.

• Genesis 17:19-21 OT

  God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have…

• Genesis 25:23 OT

  Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

• Romans 9:12 NT

  it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

• Romans 9:13 NT

  Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

• Genesis 48:15-20 OT

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and…

• 1 Chronicles 5:2 OT

  For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

• Exodus 7:1 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

• Exodus 7:2 OT

  You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

• Numbers 12:2 OT

  They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.

• Numbers 12:8 OT

  With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

• 1 Samuel 16:6-12 OT

  When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.” But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For…

• 1 Kings 2:15 OT

  He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.

• 1 Kings 2:22 OT

  King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”

• Psalms 89:27 OT

  I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

• Romans 8:29 NT

  For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

• Colossians 1:18 NT

  He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

• Hebrews 12:23 NT

  to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,