“Then he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all I have is yours.
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with whores, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’
And we had to rejoice and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive, and was lost and is found.’ ”
“And the servant does not stay in the house forever – a son stays forever.
I say then, has Elohim rejected His people? Let it not be! For I also am of Yisra’ĕl, of the seed of Aḇraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.
“Or who first gave to Him, and it shall be given back to him?”
who are the children of Yisra’ĕl, to whom is the adoption, and the esteem, and the covenants, and the giving of the Torah, and the worship, and the promises,