◄ Exodus 4:22 ►
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Good News Translation
Then you must tell him that I, the LORD, say, 'Israel is my first-born son.

New Revised Standard Version
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD: Israel is my firstborn son.

Contemporary English Version
Then tell him that I have said, "Israel is my first-born son,

New American Bible
So you will say to Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Israel.

Exodus 19:5,6 If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine. . . .

Deuteronomy 14:1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;

Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Hosea 11:1 As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.

Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

2 Corinthians 6:18 And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Hebrews 12:23 And to the church of the firstborn who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

James 1:18 For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.

Context
Moses Leaves for Egypt
…21And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. 22And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.23I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.…
Cross References
Matthew 2:15
That it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying: Out of Egypt have I called my son.

Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Hebrews 12:23
And to the church of the firstborn who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

Exodus 6:11
Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Exodus 7:16
And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to thee, saying: Let my people go to sacrifice to me in the desert: and hitherto thou wouldst not hear.

Psalm 89:27
And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.

Isaiah 63:16
For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

Isaiah 64:8
And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

Jeremiah 31:9
They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Hosea 11:1
As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.

Exodus 4:21
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