Firstborn
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Firstborn’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.” ’
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Genesis 4:7 OT
If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
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If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated, then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit…
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Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.
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Exodus 4:22 OT
You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
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Psalms 89:27 OT
I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
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They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.
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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.
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He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
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Hebrews 1:6 NT
When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”
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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,
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and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
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Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom. Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.” Esau…
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He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
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Romans 9:12 NT
it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
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Romans 9:13 NT
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
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lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
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Genesis 49:3 OT
“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
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Genesis 49:4 OT
Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
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The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the…
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For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—
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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…
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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.
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Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),