Exodus 4:22

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“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)
KJVPD

“And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born <FI>is<Fi> Israel,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 4:22 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. Deuteronomy 14:1You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
  3. 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?
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Jeremiah 2:14Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
  7. 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.”
  8. Hosea 11:1When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
  9. 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?’
  10. 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.
  11. 2 Corinthians 6:18And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
  12. 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,
  13. James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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