First-born Sentence Examples

Some said that babies recognized their mother's voice when they were first born because they had listened to them in the womb.

Proserpine herself was commonly known as the daughter (Core), sometimes as the first-born.

In the highest hell rules alone the grisly king Sh'dum, "the warrior"; in the storey immediately beneath is Giv, "the great"; and in the lowest is Krun or Karkum, the oldest and most powerful of all, commonly called "the great mountain of flesh" (Third rabba d'besra), but also "the first-born of darkness."

Manda d'hayye and his image Hibil Ziva with his incarnations clearly correspond to the old Babylonian Marduk, Merodach, the "first-born" son of Ea, with his incarnations, the chief divinity of the city of Babylon, the mediator and redeemer in the old religion.

The Israelites were commanded to select on the tenth of Abib (Nisan) a he-lamb of the first year, without blemish, to kill it on the eve of the fourteenth and to sprinkle with its blood the lintel and sidepost of the doors of their dwellings so that the Lord should "pass over" them when he went forth to slay the first-born of the Egyptians.

First-born sons to be redeemed; none to appear before the Lord empty; six days' work, seventh day rest, in the harvest; the sacrifice of the Passover shall not remain until the morning.

At midnight all the first-born of the Egyptians are slain and Pharaoh sends the Israelites out of Egypt in haste, and the people took the dough before it was leavened upon kneading troughs upon their shoulders.

Finally, the association of the first-born with the festival specially referred to in the texts, and carried out both in Samaritan tradition, which marks the forehead of the first-born with the blood of the lamb, and in Jewish custom, which obliged the first-born to fast on the day preceding Passover, also connects the idea of the feast with the sacro-sanctity of the first-born.

When first born these are clothed with a uniform slaty-grey fur, which in due course gives place to a coat of more tawny hue than the adult livery.

Yahweh appears to plead with His people for their sins, but the sinners are no longer a careless and oppressive aristocracy buoyed up by deceptive assurances of Yahweh's help, by prophecies of wine and strong drink; they are bowed down by a religion of terror, wearied with attempts to propitiate an angry God by countless offerings, and even by the sacrifice of the first-born.

And in our Lord Jesus Christ, His Son, the only-begotten and first born of all creation, begotten of Him before all the ages, through whom also the ages were established, and all things came into existence; 3.

God of God, Light of Light, (Life of Life,)only begotten Son (first-born of all creation, before all worlds begotten of God the Father), by whom all things were made; 3.

For every one who shall not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is antichrist; and whosoever shall not confess the testimony of the Cross is of the devil; and whosoever shall pervert the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts and say that there is neither resurrection nor judgment, that man is the first-born of Satan.

But Polycarp displayed the same uncompromising attitude which his master John had shown towards Cerinthus and answered, "I recognize you as the first-born of Satan."

Sidon, the " first-born " of Canaan, is classed among the descendants of Ham; but the table of nations in Gen.

The goddess Fortuna here went by the name of Primigenia (First-Born, but perhaps in an active sense FirstBearer); she was represented suckling two babes, said to be Jupiter and Juno, and she was especially worshipped by matrons.

The legend of Athamas is probably founded on a very old custom amongst the Minyae - the sacrifice of the first-born of the race of Athamas to Zeus Laphystius.

Thoroughly reactionary, and absolutely devoted to the Habsburgs, he contributed more than any one else to the curtailing of the privileges of the Magyar gentry in 1687, when he was created a prince of the Empire, with (in 1712) succession to the first-born of his house.

He thus gained the blessing intended for the first-born, and Esau, on hearing how he had been forestalled, vowed to kill him.

He also urges the analogue of " the anointing of the doorposts, which preserved the first-born by things that have no sense."

As the former he is the son of Anu, the god of heaven, but he is likewise associated with Bel of Nippur as the god of the earth and regarded as his first-born son.

Carrying out, it may be, the principles of the Neo-Platonists, they kept the sanctuary of the Deity securely guarded, and interposed between him and his creatures a spiritual order of potent principles, from the Intelligence, which is the first-born image of the great unity, to the Soul and Nature, which come later in the spiritual rank.

Holly Hughes - The colored yearling filly who was Holwell's " First born " pony last year.

And standing beside us, looking down like a mother watching the gambols of her first-born, was C__ 's sister D__ .

He could boast also of the higher honor of having been the first born American to win laurels in the British ring.

What a great idea for your first born or rug rat.

Back in the 70's my husband and I poured over the little book of baby names trying to find the right name for our first born.

One family I know names their first born daughters Ruby Michelle.

And to think when she was born, I tried to push her into the pool, because I didn't want to be anything other than first born and top cat!

The Maasai tribesmen believed that tanzanite has mystical qualities and it is given to the tribes people's first born child as a symbol of good luck.

In addition, if there is only one daughter in a family of three boys, the daughter will often be treated as a first born no matter where in the birth order she is born.

Clinical studies show a familial tendency toward hip dysplasia with a greater chance of this hip abnormality in the first born compared to the second or third child.

First-born Aries is truly a man who acts first and answers questions later!

As you may have already surmised, Aries lives up to his birthright of being the first born of the zodiac.

Their dress shoes are classic enough to travel with you through your college graduation, the marriage of your first-born, and on to vacation spots after retirement.

In addition to playing music, Simmons' first born is a creative writer and illustrator, who recently designed his own comic book titled Nick Simmons' Incarnate.