Exodus 4:22

Catholic Public Domain Version

And you shall say to him: 'Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.

Cross References

Exodus 6:11

"Enter and speak to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, so that he may release the sons of Israel from his land."

Exodus 7:16

And you will say to him: 'The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to you, saying: Release my people in order to sacrifice to me in the desert. And even until the present time, you were not willing to listen.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our Father, and Abraham has not known us, and Israel has been ignorant of us. You are our Father, O Lord our Redeemer. Your name is beyond all ages.

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.

Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a servant, or one born into slavery? Then why has he become a prey?

Jeremiah 31:9

They will approach with weeping. And I will lead them back with mercy. And I will lead them through the torrents of water, by an upright way, and they will not stumble in it. For I have become Father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn."

Hosea 11:1

Just as the morning passes, so has the king of Israel passed by. For Israel was a child and I loved him; and out of Egypt I called my son.

Malachi 1:6

The son honors the father, and the servant his master. If, therefore, I am Father, where is my honor? And if I am Master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And you have said, "In what way, have we despised your name?"

Matthew 2:15

And he remained there, until the death of Herod, in order to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: "Out of Egypt, I called my son."

Romans 9:4

These are the Israelites, to whom belongs adoption as sons, and the glory and the testament, and the giving and following of the law, and the promises.

2 Corinthians 6:18

Then I will accept you. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."

Deuteronomy 14:1

"Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead.

Deuteronomy 32:6

How can this be the return you would offer to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is he himself not your Father, who has possessed you, and made you, and created you?

Hebrews 12:23

and to the Church of the first-born, those who have been inscribed in the heavens, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

James 1:18

For by his own will he produced us through the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of beginning among his creatures.