Exodus 4:22

New International Version

Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son,

Cross References

Psalm 89:27

And I will appoint him to be my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth.

Exodus 6:11

“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.”

Exodus 7:16

Then say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.

Isaiah 63:16

But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.

Isaiah 64:8

Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

Hosea 11:1

“When 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 slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the Lord Almighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’

Matthew 2:15

where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Romans 9:4

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.

2 Corinthians 6:18

And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?

Hebrews 12:23

to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

James 1:18

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.