"Dedicate all the first-born males to me, for every first-born male Israelite and every first-born male animal belongs to me."

"Give me the offerings from your grain, your wine, and your olive oil when they are due. "Give me your first-born sons.

She gave birth to her first son, wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger---there was no room for them to stay in the inn.

Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first among many believers.

A week later, when the time came for the baby to be circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given him before he had been conceived.