Exodus 4:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,”
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“Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:”
King James Version · Public Domain“And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born <FI>is<Fi> Israel,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 4:22 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Deuteronomy 14:1You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
- Deuteronomy 32:6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
- Isaiah 63:16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
- Isaiah 64:8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
- Jeremiah 2:14Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
- Jeremiah 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
- Hosea 11:1When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
- Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
- Romans 9:4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
- 2 Corinthians 6:18And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
- Hebrews 12:23in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
- James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
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