Exodus 4:22
And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, These things saith the Lord, Israel is my firstborn.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
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Cross References
Exodus 19:5And now if ye will indeed hear my voice, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine.
Deuteronomy 32:6Do ye thus recompense the Lord? 1 Is the people thus foolish and unwise? 1 Did not he himself thy father purchase thee, 1 And make thee, and form thee? 1
Isaiah 64:8Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins forever; but now look on us, for we are all thy people.
Jeremiah 31:9Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be touched with a plague spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence shall there be an inhabitant for her?
Malachi 1:6A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord Almighty. Ye the priests are they that despise my name: yet ye said, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Matthew Henry on Exodus 4:19-24
Moses Returns in Egypt. ( b. c. 1491.) 18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 19 And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life. 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his… Read the whole commentary →