Rabbi Berekhya said in the name of Rabbi Levi: By the merit of “you shall take for you on the first day,” I [God] will be revealed to you first, and I will exact retribution from the first, that is, the wicked Esau, in whose regard it is written: “The first emerged” (Genesis 25:25). I will build for you the first; this is the Temple, in whose regard it is written: “Throne of glory, exalted from the first, the place of our Temple” (Jeremiah 17:12). I will bring to you the first; this is the messianic king, in whose regard it is written: “The first to Zion, behold, they are here, and to Jerusalem I will provide a herald” (Isaiah 41:27).