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Definition of Firstborns
1. firstborn [n] - See also: firstborn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firstborns
Literary usage of Firstborns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone by John William Colenso (1873)
"Moreover, it represents the Levites and their cattle as taken to be JEHOVAH'S,
about a year afterwards, in place of all the firstborns and firstlings in ..."
2. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1920)
"This table shows that the fertility of the firstborns who married was practically
the same as the ... PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION AND OF firstborns MARRIED. ..."
3. The Problem of the Old Testament Considered with Reference to Recent Criticism by James Orr (1906)
"In a family like Jacob's, eg, how many "firstborns" would be reckoned ; Reuben,
... 8), or all the firstborns of the several wives! Cf. the law, Deut. xxi. ..."
4. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1866)
"The ease? is still stronger when we examine the small number of firstborns in
that mighty army, only 22273, out of 1000000 of men and boys. ..."
5. Some Heresies Dealt with by Alexander Hay Japp (1899)
"... it seems highly probable that the Pesach meant originally the Passing-over of
the firstborns of man and beast to the sun-god, and that the Canaanites, ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"Take Numbers, and the total of firstborns there given, as compared with the number
of male adults: “If, of 900000 “males, 22273 are firstborns, ..."
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