Firsts

Category	Who/What	Book & Verse
Significant number	Seven	Genesis 1
Vegetarians	Humans	Genesis 1
Gardener	The “man”	Genesis 2.15
Fruit	Loincloths made of fig leaves	Genesis 2.7
Clothing	Fig leave loincloths; “garments of skin”	Genesis 2.7; 3.21
Tempter	Serpent	Genesis 3.1
Sin	Disobedience	Genesis 3.2
Mention of specific divine beings other than God	Cherubim & flaming sword	Genesis 3.24
Sex	Adam & Eve	Genesis 4.1
Child	Cain	Genesis 4.1
Brother	Able	Genesis 4.2
Shepherd	Able	Genesis 4.2
Murder	Cain of Able	Genesis 4.8
Criminal	Cain (murderer of Able)	Genesis 4.8
Lie	Cain denies knowing where Able is	Genesis 4.9
Grandson	Enoch, son of Cain, son of Adam & Eve	Genesis 4.17
City	Enoch, built by Cain	Genesis 4.17
Known bigamist	Lamech (Adah & Zillah)	Genesis 4.19
Religion	Worship of God	Genesis 4.26
Clear use of “Adam” as a proper name	No longer “the man”	Genesis 5.1
Mention of the Nephilim		Genesis 6.4
Mention of a covenant between God and humans	With Noah	Genesis 6.18
Ship/boat	Noah’s ark	Genesis 6.22
Flood	Sent by God to cleanse the earth	Genesis 7.6
Named mountain	Ararat	Genesis 8.4
Member of a bird species mentioned	Raven	Genesis 8.7
Eating of meat sanctioned	After the flood	Genesis 9.3
Death penalty	For murder	Genesis 9.6
Covenant	Between Noah, his descendants, the whole earth and God	Genesis 9.9
Vineyard (viticulture)	Planted by Noah after the flood	Genesis 9.20
Mighty warrior	Nimrod	Genesis 10.8
Military campaign led by a major character	Abram & Amorite allies free Lot	Genesis 14