Exodus 4:22

New American Bible - revised edition

So you will say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Cross References

Psalm 89:27

He shall cry to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock of my salvation!’

Exodus 6:11

Go, tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to let the Israelites leave his land.

Exodus 7:16

Say to him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you with the message: Let my people go to serve me in the wilderness. But as yet you have not listened.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father. Were Abraham not to know us, nor Israel to acknowledge us, You, Lord, are our father, our redeemer you are named from of old.

Isaiah 64:8

Do not be so very angry, Lord, do not remember our crimes forever; look upon us, who are all your people!

Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a slave, a house-born servant? Why then has he become plunder?

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, but with compassion I will guide them; I will lead them to streams of water, on a level road, without stumbling. For I am a father to Israel, Ephraim is my firstborn.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son.

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father, and a servant fears his master; If, then, I am a father, where is the honor due to me? And if I am a master, where is the fear due to me? So says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who disdain my name. But you ask, “How have we disdained your name?”

Matthew 2:15

He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled, “Out of Egypt I called my son.” The Massacre of the Infants.

Romans 9:4

They are Israelites; theirs the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the Lord, so foolish and unwise a people? Is he not your father who begot you, the one who made and established you?

Hebrews 12:23

and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect,

James 1:18

He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Doers of the Word.