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"¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

"And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."

"And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;"

"And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke."

"Reuben, thou my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:"

"This month unto you the beginning of months: it the first month of the year to you."

"Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I the LORD your God."

"And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;"

"A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year."

"But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn his."

"I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy."

"So Gideon, and the hundred men that with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that in their hands."

"So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest."

"And he said, Blessed thou of the LORD, my daughter: thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich."

"And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first , in the beginning of barley harvest."

"¶ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night."

"And it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew of them."

"Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,"

"¶ And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem."

"Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase."

"So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses."

"The fear of the LORD the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do : his praise endureth for ever."

"¶ Thy word true the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments for ever."

"¶ The fear of the LORD the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction."

"¶ The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old."

"I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was."

"The fear of the LORD the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy understanding."

"¶ The beginning of strife when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with."

"¶ An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed."

"¶ He hath made every beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."

"Better the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: the patient in spirit better than the proud in spirit."

"The beginning of the words of his mouth foolishness: and the end of his talk mischievous madness."

"And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city."

"That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, , Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!"

"In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion."

"Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?"

"Who hath wrought and done , calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I he."

"Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, righteous? yea, none that sheweth, yea, none that declareth, yea, none that heareth your words."

"Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times that are not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"

"I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did suddenly, and they came to pass."

"I have even from the beginning declared to thee; before it came to pass I shewed thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them."

"They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them."

"¶ Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me."

"For since the beginning of the world have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him."

"¶ A glorious high throne from the beginning the place of our sanctuary."

"¶ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,"

"¶ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,"

"¶ And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,"

"¶ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,"

"Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street."